TtU's insights into the challenges and benefits of diversity of thinking in public and private organisations
Podcast | 18 min
Businesses must consider how to recalibrate their purpose urgently. To justify making profits they must solve problems not assume they can get away with creating them.
Professor Colin Mayer is a leading and radical thinker on profit. Here at TTU we urge that his alerts and new thinking are taken seriously. The future viability of capitalism hinges upon this essential shift, and here he explains why.
Podcast | 18 min
In this new and riveting analysis Seb Munden explains why advertising must dramatically revolutionise attitudes to green. Advertising could do it fast and decisively. Its survival is threatened if it doesn’t.
Work out the new positives and opportunities in this deepening era of disruption, then embrace them. Andrew Liveris, the former CEO of Dow Chemical, says leaders must “toss out the rule book” and replace the old toolbox.
Lord Nicholas Stern details his deep alarm that governments are “rolling the dice” and “backsliding” on confronting climate realities. He urges leaders at all levels to take their own decisive action to counter this regression.
Why won’t most leaders make the changes so desperately needed? In this devastating critique, ex-Bank of England risk advisor Michael Sheren takes off the gloves. Huge numbers of executives simply can’t confront the scale of the transition needed.
What fuels resistance, and why? The science of climate change is ever more worrying. But communicating the enormity of what must be done still faces significant obstacles. Liz Bentley is CEO of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS). She reveals big frustrations during an intense year conveying the message.
It is the “right thing to do”. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said this time and again to justify his unexpected, shock announcement watering down the UK’s commitments to Net Zero. But it was wrong.
Watching and reading the news these days can be a numbing experience. How do we make sense of a world of multiple crises? And what can we do about it?
“If you are feeling confused and overwhelmed you aren’t on your own.” That is the reassuring advice from Christopher Hobson. He is one of the leading figures in arguing that we will advance our understanding of what’s going wrong in the world when we realise we are in a ‘polycrisis’.
Leaders! Please take note! I witnessed an extraordinary celebration in the unofficial margins of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. Suddenly there seemed to be remarkable new hope that determined action is picking up speed to save the planet.
TTU’s insight into the ‘polycrisis’ of 2022 and what leaders can do to prepare themselves for the huge challenges – and opportunities – ahead.
Lord Toby Harris chairs the UK’s new National Preparedness Commission. But it faces obstacles getting its core messages read and accepted. Here he asks why leaders still find preparing for the unexpected so problematic.
We face dark times. Very dark times. All of us. They will be darker times than almost all of us can visualise or have ever experienced. But few seem to realise the true enormity of what we all confront, let alone how to come to terms with this. For the vast majority of us it is unthinkable.