Members’ Area
"The story of social media is the story of the rise and fall of hope.”
"Democracy won’t save itself; we need a combination of drastic action from our citizens and bold ideas from our leaders."
Connectivity and anonymity “shine a bright light into the dark reaches of the human psyche.”
Privacy is “the ugly underbelly of all we love about the internet.”
We can gain a “massive amount of headroom” through partnership with technology.
“Nobody is exempt from responsibility on the climate; we can all do something.”
The “beauty of philanthropy is that it does fund wild things.”
More work is required to ensure that art becomes a “much wider national habit.”
AI is “the most used least understood term.”
“Organisations and societies that lead their people through change” will benefit most from the digital revolution.
“I don’t see where this freedom [derived from Brexit] is going to be put to use to generate a much better society.”
“You need to see a future to have motivation.”
“Focus means having to say no to good ideas because you are already working on very good ideas.”
“I find it incomprehensible that our children are being brought up with an education system and curriculum that is not preparing them for the world they are going to live in.”
“...in decline we have to be most careful as that is where things start spiraling out of control.”
“We live on planet GDP.”
“I believe in patriotism – however not if it means deciding that anyone who is not exactly like you is a threat.”
“You have got to get these skills across the business – and it is very doable.” Richard Peters from Decoded on data skills
“we have to do it, but we want to do it and we can do it” (on innovation)
“If you remove yourself from a close-knit trading group, you are likely to end up doing worse than others.”
"In an era of machine-made perfection, human stories become more relevant.”
“The world we are living in erases nuances.”
“What choices do people make when there are no good choices left?”
“What is the essence of being human [is moving] from the realm of abstract philosophy to the world of engineering.”
“When you think about armed conflict, don’t opt out.”
“You cannot have a democracy if you do not have a common national identity.”
“Leadership is coproduced by leaders and followers, emerging between the influential and charismatic who crave it and the hopeful and fearful who demand it.”
“there is something that lies beyond what we see around us.…spirituality is a powerful tool to move things beyond the boundaries that we think we have.”
“Ignore your 100 customers for your future million customers.”
“It’s a dangerous delusion to think that space offers an escape from Earth’s problems.”
“Never have the burdens of the self been heavier.”
“You cannot understand the world we are going into unless you use empire as a backdrop.”
“We don’t understand the value of emotional intelligence. We suppress it rather than use it wisely.”
“We want to all sit in first class. We can’t afford to, but we like brands that give us the semblance that we can.”
“Security is not an engineering problem.”
“We underestimate how we are going to be surprised by AI.”
For Rachel Botsman, trust is "a confident relationship with the unknown.”
"Rather than having a counterargument to everything, sometimes we have to accept and avoid escalation."
“We are not heading in a good direction. I think that should be obvious.”
“The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea and most people don’t invest in crazy ideas.”
“Do you want to live your life on autopilot?”
The UK needs an “asymmetric warfare model of innovation.”
“in a psychologically safe workplace, people are not hindered by interpersonal fear…They fear holding back their full participation more than they fear sharing a potentially sensitive, threatening, or wrong idea.”
“paying attention to your health-related lifestyle requires you to have something to live for.”
“overnight success takes ten years”
now is the time for retailers to move “from cold product to a warm community”
“Most walks were made to be done.”
“we want systems that we know we can trust without being taken advantage of.” - Adrian Weller of the Turing Institute
“Reason is a defence barrister mechanism not a decision-making mechanism.”
“to think that [privacy] can be regulated is not only naïve but not doable.”
We must ”keep going in order to stop things getting worse.”
“Sleep is unfortunately not an optional lifestyle luxury.”
“The people who know him best, hate him the most.”
“If we can get to the point where none of us think we have to lie about our age any more, we will have fully embraced extra time.”
We must ”keep going in order to stop things getting worse.”
“Everyone has a mind, and everyone struggles with it from time to time.”
“Organisational silence is a huge reality of organisational life.”
“You can’t find a crisis where the credit policy compromise is not egregious.”
“you have to invest time – there is no shortcut.”
“there are lots of unlikely scenarios and one of those unlikely scenarios is going to happen.”
Trump has an “almost diabolic skill at identifying where resentments lie.”
"We can only become what we have taken in, making what we eat hugely important."
“Hope lies inherently in the action…. of the players, the countries…”
We often assume that “if people could just understand the facts”, they would change their minds.
Strategy only makes sense in a world that is sufficiently “knowable and stable” to give you a view of the future.
“there is no fundamental reason why technological ingenuity should always be allowed to thrive"
“London deserves better”
“asking people to apologise is asking them to emphasise the same point twice.”
“Ineradicable uncertainty is a feature of human existence.”
"Freedom is collective, if it exists at all."
“You are what you continually do."
The CPP asks how we switch from “them and us” to a “larger us” narrative.
We are witnessing a “medically-induced coma” in our economy.
“Unlike in 2008, trying to get international cooperation seems to be a bit more difficult so far during this crisis.”
Policymakers have been thinking about things like warfare and weapons and now find that the greatest threat is a “high five from a barman.”
“All the world’s problems are being expressed in software.”
Social media is “a story-telling super-power.”
“Supportive care is the only evidence-based treatment for COVID-19.”
“…ironically, it could be that producing a global cooling effect is less contentious than people trying to take care of their own territories as these problems escalate.”
“… in all honesty, we don't know which [view on ESG post Covid] is going to prevail.”
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