In an essay titled ‘Has Democracy a Future?’, historian Arthur Schlesinger wrote that “people of goodwill in 1900 believe in the inevitability of democracy, the invincibility of progress, the decency of human nature, and the coming reign of reason and peace”. The then-president of Stanford University, David Starr Jordan, echoed Schlesinger’s positive outlook by adding...
The 2002 book ‘Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High’ seems to bleed into every trending discussion that I have followed lately.
I found myself reflecting on aspects of an SMEs Compete entrepreneurs’ roundtable from September last year. After listening to testimonies about bad decisions and remedial action, participants wanted to know more about treasured lessons in entrepreneurship. In response, the roundtable of entrepreneurs noted that business plans can always be improved; they encouraged would-be entrepreneurs not...