Another day … another opportunity to plug the book. Yesterday found us at a breakfast forum organised by Julia Hobsbawm and the team at Editorial Intelligence. Check out David’s blog which includes a brief video interview with Julia. We were joined by the extremely erudite and impressive Anthony Hilton from the Evening Standard. Despite the current economic climate, Anthony claims to be an optimist about the UK’s medium to longer term future – there aren’t many of them around at the moment.
We talked about the need for the next generation of business leaders to be capable of dealing with complexity, quoting Sir Martin Sorrell’s line that ‘the 21st Century is not for tidy minds’. It is our contention that many of the problems faced by George W. reflect the inability of a man – who tends to see issues in terms of black and white – to deal with the chaos and ambiguity of the real world. There was a great headline in USA Today last year on this theme: ‘Wanted – a president with a complex mind.’