Insights
Ethics in Business
Last Wednesday a concerning statistic for the business community in the UK and Ireland emerged which didn’t directly relate to economic performance, employment, Brexit, skills availability or any other pressing issue.
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay!
It’s funny how people can get something into their head that is incorrect and no matter what conventional wisdom says or common–sense dictates, they simply cannot shift from it. A friend of mine had twins, a boy and a girl, and when she would meet people out walking when the children were young some would ask if they were identical, knowing they were separate sex twins. For whatever reason, some people associate twins with being identical only no matter what the evidence suggests.
Britain and the EU: One year on from the Referendum
On the eve of last year’s historic referendum decision, Charles Dunstone, entrepreneurial founder of Carphone Warehouse stated confidently: ‘In my experience there are calculated risks, there are clever risks, and there are unnecessary and dangerous risks. And from all I can conclude, Brexit sits firmly in the latter camp.’
Our View – June 2017
I wonder what Benjamin Franklin, one of the great societal contributors in US history would make of civic leadership in our world today?
New Leader for a New Time…
Many have credited Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny as the only politician with the will–power to lead Ireland through the financial crisis of 2008; he was however always going to struggle to make the transition from “safe pair of hands” to “dynamic new light.”
Our View – May 2017
The great British economist John Maynard Keynes said, ‘The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones’.
Our View – March 2017
‘More mush from the Wimp’. From a different era and a very different world, this was the damning headline stamped upon Jimmy Carter’s US Presidency by the Boston Globe following another banal and vapid economic speech in 1980.