What I've been reading

'Few people are aware 1.5 million Indians fought – that there were men in turbans in the same trenches as the Tommies'

The soft drink giant's current messaging just silences its critics.

The ‘moto’ was once a caricature of masculinity. After women put it on, it became something else.

It makes you more compassionate. Except when others are suffering just as you did.

"'It is otherwise in Hind,' said Kim drily. 'Their Gods are many-armed and malignant. Let them alone.'"

Futurist Keynote Speaker Patrick Dixon MBE: 15m unique visitors, 9m video views. Ranked one of 20 most influential business thinkers alive. Author 18 Futurist books on Future Trends. Futurist speaker and Advisor to >400 of world's largest companies. Chairman Global Change Ltd. Highly customised, very interactive, entertaining Futurist presentations, every industry, >50 nations.

Throughout history, scholars and researchers have tried to identify the one key reason that people are attracted to religion.

GFT seemingly presented an eerily accurate projection of the prevalence of the flu, turning the digital refuse of people’s searches into potentially life saving insights.

Systematic fraud by the world’s biggest carmaker threatens to engulf the entire industry and possibly reshape it

An algorithm schedules and manages the nightly engineering work on one of the world's best subway systems – and does it more efficiently than any human could

How did Pablo Escobar rise up out of the Medellin barrios to become the CEO of a $4 billion business?

Command and control are still important.

A country of just four million is home to arguably the most dominant team in sport. But how do the All Blacks remain at the pinnacle more than 100 years after the ‘Originals’ established their supremacy?

Not long ago, I called a friend of mine who had promised to help me with a project. He was very sincere when he offered his help, so I assumed that he would return my phone call soon enough for me to get on with the next steps. After two more messages and a conversation, […]

An excerpt from Capra's and Luisi's book, which integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework.

A national site covering food and dining culture, with 23 city sites tracking local dining scenes across hundreds of maps.

“A well-designed product is one you fall in love with.”

The approach, once used primarily in product design, is now infusing corporate culture.

How to use design thinking to make great things actually happen

These ideas aren’t solutions to your problem. But they help you and allow you to get to a place where you are better able to pin down the right decision.

How a generation that hated baby-boomer wistfulness can learn to do nostalgia right.

In today’s fast-changing world, why freeze your strategic thinking in a five-year plan?