“Unsustainable things can last longer than you anticipate”. Morgan Housel Measuring the present disaster, in numbers ONLY, is CRUSHING. This is not about 1929, it took four years then to reach …
WITH VIRTUE AND DARING
This great lesson on how to face up and win in every Crisis was given to the World by two small Countries. The Country that I was born in, Greece, and the Country that I live in, Dubai. Both those sma…
ENERGY & CIRCULAR ECONOMY
THE POST COVID-19 WORLD
The pandemic is changing profoundly the global landscape and will change the Economic and Social balance of power worldwide. Many Economies, particularly those of some Petro-States, but not only, will…
OIL AFTER KHURAIS & ABQAIQ
The purpose of this article is to examine the World Supply and Demand situation after the shocking attack that temporarily crippled by half the Saudi Hydrocarbons production. A short Geopolitical intr…
THE 3 ELECTRIC CAR BRAKES
The Electric Vehicle is entering the mainstream of Transport. The value structure of mobility is changing. While today the CAPEX (Capital expenditure-purchase of a car) is 20% and the OPEX (Operationa…
THE GREAT HYDROCARBONS DISRUPTION AND THE NEXT 10 YEARS
ABSTRACT A great disturbance in the Energy mix in the World is already happening and it will accelerate during the next ten years. This will result in a curbing of the demand for Oil, an increase in t…
TECHNOLOGY EATS CULTURE FOR BREAKFAST
(Culture eats Strategy for breakfast revisited)
Drucker has been a Business Guru for many of us. Many of his quotes have become mantras and like mantras often misunderstood. His quip about Strategy and Culture, if he really said it, is preeminent a…
DISRUPTION & THE CEO
“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit …
PRECISION & MANAGEMENT
The recent digital advances in AI and other related cognitive field have given Managers, particularly top ones/leaders the impression that higher precision in decision making is now possible. While th…
CEO YOU NEED A FOOL
“Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule forever”. Agathon (448-400 BC) When you are a C…