by Dean van Leeuwen | Oct 22, 2013 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
“The present state of affairs is really a perversion of the proper working of capitalism. It is all wrong to have millionaires before you have ceased to have slums…If we do not find some way of correcting that perversion of capitalism, our society will break...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Oct 22, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends
On the 28th August 1963 civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King, led thousands of people on a march to America’s capital, Washington DC. There he gave a speech that inspired and paved the way for equal rights and changed the world forever. Fifty years on...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Sep 13, 2013 | Archive, Leadership
Earlier this year I was privileged to hear Seth Godin speak in London. The talk was part of his new book promotional tour The Icarus Deception. In the book and during the talk Seth asked the question “how high are you prepared to fly to deliver your art?”...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jul 17, 2013 | Archive, Change, Future Trends
“It is clear that policymakers and those who advise them do not have a satisfactory conceptual framework for dealing with [this] disruptive impact” says Alec Ross the former senior adviser on innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and; Jonathan...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Jul 16, 2013 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership
A recent MIT Technology Review reveals an alarming trend. Since the early 2000’s and increasingly since the financial crisis of 2008, the levels of employment have decreased even though productivity has increased over the same period. Erik Brynjolfsson And...
