Steve Jobs had it right: the office is a hub for creativity IN 1986 Steve Jobs became the majority shareholder of a little-known company called the Lucasfilm Graphics Group. For the small sum of $5 million, Jobs acquired a motley crew of 40 computer scientists and graphic artists. But it wasn’t long before the company started making a loss. Products weren’t shifting. Something had to give. Under [...]
We can make this the decade of purpose-driven capitalism As we enter the 2020s, capitalism is suffering a crisis of confidence. Populists around the world are putting a simple spin on globalisation as against the interests of ordinary people. By contrasting the growth in developed economies with a simultaneous squeeze on living standards, they argue that the link has been severed between a profitable [...]
