Skip to main content
Category

Blog

This is How To Tackle Climate Change To Solve Food Sustainability

By Blog No Comments
Patrick Ashby co-founded his non-profit VISO, the Voluntary Initiative Support Organization, in 2004 to focus on countering violent extremism in Northern Uganda, a region racked by nearly 20 years of civil war and a recent influx of over one million Sudanese refugees. The area, he says, is now plagued by “strife between the communities, high unemployment, and now climate change...
Read More

The AREA Method: When A Good Strategy Is Not Enough

By Blog No Comments
Recently there’s a lot of evidence of high profile strategy failures, whether it’s the health care overhaul in Congress, the inability of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to bolster oil prices by cutting supplies, or disappointments from hot start-up initial public offerings like photo-sharing app maker SNAP and meal-kit service Blue Apron. It’s not that these organizations lack strategy....
Read More

AREA Method: What President Trump & Tom Brady Have In Common

By Blog No Comments

What do President Trump and New England Patriot’s quarterback Tom Brady have in common? A knack for rapid decision making. That’s a risky proposition, given that decision making for complex issues deserves time and attention. But that’s also in part why Sunday’s Super Bowl was so exciting and why our President’s recent actions are so problematic. During the Super Bowl…

Read More

AREA Method: Milken Institute’s Future of Europe Conference Reveals the Peril of Prediction

By Blog One Comment

I was recently honored to speak at the Milken Institute London Summit on the Future Of Europe after Brexit and the overwhelming takeaway that I came home with is this: European politicians and pundits said that they regretted their ‘assumption’ that globalization was going to be the rising tide that lifts all boats. The assumption, they said, was that “better…

Read More

AREA Method: Spotting False Stories

By Blog No Comments

In life things are not always as they seem. But in today’s fast paced world we tend to rush to judgement. We let assumptions and biases guide our actions and our perception of the world. War provides a stark example of the false stories that we accept all too quickly and with deadly consequences. For example, The New York Times…

Read More