October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 3m
English
book
Beating the Global Odds: Successful Decision-making in a Confused and Troubled World
by Paul A. Laudicina, Mukesh Ambani
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Chapter 3
Rudderless World
Angry Populism, Incapacitated Government, and Stray Capitalism
We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.
—Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and former President of the European Council
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
—George Santayana, Spanish-born thinker and Harvard professor
The natural state of men, before they were joined in society, was a war, and not simply, but a war of all against all.
—Thomas Hobbes
To paraphrase the Beatles, you say you want a revolution? Well, today streets around the world are filled with enraged people, but unlike the 1960s protest movements, this rage doesn’t seem to be leading to any particular destination.
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In Davos about 10 years ago, I caught the whiff of something reminiscent of my college days in the late 1960s in Chicago: tear gas. I was in the famous Swiss ski village for the World Economic Forum’s annual confab, a place where you can indeed meet more CEOs and movers and shakers and pick up more new stimuli in several days than you can in a year of traveling. The country is justly famed for an orderliness bordering on the obsessive-compulsive, and for this annual event, ...
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