Reflections

A casual breakfast in Hong Kong drifted towards this thought. I met David last month, a dear old friend and LSE classmate, now a professor at HKU Business School. When you meet someone after 14 years, time collapses a little. You are reminded of who you were before the weight of the world felt heavy. And when those early years were spent doing organisational psychology at LSE, the present has a way of pulling you back into the bigger questions: where is the world going, and w

It is tempting to think of resolutions as a list made on a single night, under fairy lights and fireworks, then abandoned in the harsh reality of January’s second week. But resolutions, if watched over a lifetime, are less like lists and more like the waistline: each year adds a millimetre or centimetre, or even a few inches, of intention, compromise, and experience to us. A resolution is not only what we promise to do; it is what we believe about choice, about time, about wh

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The week that was: week 49, 2021. “If you are on this call, you are part of the unlucky group…” said Vishal Garg when he fired 900...