“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…
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…
THE 90 DAYS CRISIS MANAGEMENT PLAN
The 2 main characteristics of this Crisis are its Unpredictability and the level of Changes There is no point to plan further than 90 days when the evolution of the Crisis is unpredictable, and…
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…
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 …
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…
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION & THE MARKETING ROLE
The business world is increasingly concerned with the operational challenges surrounding Digital Transformation (DT) and cites it as a number one risk. This concern seems to be well founded as 70% of …
URBAN SUSTAINABILITY = SMART CITY + CIRCULAR ECONOMY
“Smart Cities & Circular Economy to succeed must match the acceptance level of their specific Society’s Culture. Over-ambitious Initiatives can damage the effort more and for far longer than inact…