My essay in the pamphlet Five Critical Essays on Growth, edited by Austin Williams of the Future Cities Project, has just been published (read it on Spy). The other contributors are Phil Mullan (@Phil_Mullan) Charlie Winstanley (@cfwinstanley) Mark Iddon (@Mark_Iddon) and Shiv Malik (@shivmalik). Foreword by Austin Williams (@Future_Cities) [ed.] and afterword by Patrik …
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Launch of growth coalition Britain Remade
I am interested to learn about Britain Remade, a coalition for economic growth in Britain, of which they say, ‘It just needs a voice.’ In the Sun newspaper on Saturday they talk of how ‘We can shape the world with our science and engineering again’, and it reports on a survey Britain Remade commissioned which reveals …
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On working for free
We seem to live in a culture in which many organisations (and some people) think others should do work for them for nothing, on the basis of some possible, unstated future benefit.
Review of The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is one of the best books on innovation in the last 20 years. I read it in 2000 and still refer to it. Christensen’s core insight/argument is that businesses fight …
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Revisiting the Lucas Aerospace workers’ plan
In the Guardian Anne Karpf (@AnneKarpf) wrote about Green jobs: a utopia we nearly had on ‘workers in a failing 1970s arms factory [who] created a revolutionary jobs plan’ as a ‘positive alternative to recession and redundancy’, arguing that ‘we need their vision now’. Four decades ago, a green way out of recession was proposed. …
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