The COVID -19 pandemic forced companies to advance in six months teleworking methods that would not be implemented in five years. While this was necessary, it has all the characteristics of firefighti…
THE EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS
The present definition of Middle Class has four principal criteria: A surplus of income over & above the survival level. Ownership of some fortune. A certain educational & cultural level. Reco…
CHALLENGES START AT THE END OF THE PANDEMIC
The need to face the immediate threat of the pandemic covers temporarily the collateral damage that this Coronavirus is causing, hiding the problems that lie ahead when this pandemic will be brought u…
CHINA – THE DRAGON ALSO RISES
The Coronavirus pandemic led a lot of pundits to refer to a collapse of the Chinese Economy and even that of China. This is a simplistic and narrow framed time-wise approach that is fundamental…
THE SUN SETS ON OIL
In the decade 1910-1920 Oil was introduced as superior to Coal Energy source and it was massively and rapidly adopted. One hundred years hence we are still burning Coal. We will stop burning Oil or Co…
OIL WAR
The first victim will be the American shale. The second victim will be the Saudi budget. The third victim will be Russian Economic development and the collateral damage to be suffered by Russia becaus…
IS THE CORONAVIRUS THE PROBLEM?
The Coronavirus has triggered the fastest financial crash from a record ever. Markets had their worst week since October 2008. But why is the Coronavirus the cause? The 2018 – 2019 flu epidemic …
ENERGY 2020
The disruption decade
All-Energy events from now on are going to evolve under the heavy shadow of the Climatic Change. Last in the long series of warnings, from the UN to the Citizen in the street, Chancellor Merkel of Ger…
SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTIONS
In an age when everything is disrupted Supply Chain could not be the exemption. The sensitivity of the Supply Chain, for the last twenty years, was dependent principally on financial, commercial or tr…
THE MIDDLE MANAGER’S SHELF LIFE
The Middle Manager, for the last hundred years, was the backbone of most Companies and Corporations. In our times, when 50% of the CEOs last under two years in their job, the Middle Managers stay, at …