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The former top UK intelligence official Sir David Omand reveals how leaders can better make big decisions in a crisis using methodology developed by spies.
Sir David’s new film A Life On Our Planet is a ‘vision for the future’. Many of his arguments reflect the ambitions of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Here, we match his key quotes with those goals.
All countries are facing the long ascent. We are joined by a single rope. We are only as strong as the weakest climbers. They will need help on the way up. The path ahead is clouded with extraordinary uncertainty. Faster progress on health measures, such as vaccines and therapies could speed up the ascent. But it could also get worse.
Some liken the Coronavirus pandemic to a marathon. At Thinking the Unthinkable we liken it to a steeplechase. Our advice to all leaders is simple: assume a Covid-19 world at least until early 2023.
A crisis like no other has generated a response like no other. That’s why IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva believes there are grounds to be optimistic. This is a lightly edited transcript of her conversation with Nik Gowing at the Bled Strategic Forum.
We must challenge our thinking on evaluation in government, accountability and performance in order to innovate, says Ngaire Woods, Founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University.
While every organisation is different, common themes on what makes an adaptive organisation have emerged from our extensive research. They apply in both the public and private sector and regardless of location.
Navigating times of crisis is one of the greatest challenges leaders face. Halla Tomasdottir on confronting conformity in leadership.
Is a remarkable convergence under way between the global energy giants and the radical protest voices which have long campaigned against them in order to save the planet?
UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney on the critical lessons learned from past crises that create a unique opportunity for a social reset and ‘whole economy transition’.
Some key questions we must all ask to shift our society to a more sustainable and fairer basis, by David Grayson.
WHO Special Envoy Dr David Nabarro sets out his challenge to leaders to use COVID-19 as an opportunity for radical change that responds to the needs of all humanity.