As I was finishing my MBA I argued that likely the best opportunity my classmates and I had for making a positive difference in the world was to give away a relatively small portion of our incomes to highly effective charities that help the world’s poorest people. In that piece…

It is a significant strength of progressive politics that its practitioners are self reflective and self critical. We want to make the the world better, and so we ask (a lot) how we can make ourselves and our message better. One anxiety that many of us seem to harbour is…

When they’re not treating the plight of the asylum seekers Australia locks in island gulags as an input into the horse race, the commentariat ask despairingly what we can do to solve this intractable problem. …

In a few short weeks, the 900+ students of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2016 will graduate. There is no doubt that these remarkable people will do great things in the world. But most likely, few will become CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations. Fewer still will be wildly…

When we are asked to rate the work of people we encounter in the on demand economy – our Uber drivers, Handy cleaners or DoorDash deliverers – those of us with a soul can face a tough choice. When faced with the ubiquitous 1–5 star rating system, most people give…

This weekend I read this great ProPublica story about Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein’s combination of ‘patriotic philanthropy’ and lobbying to keep the carried interest tax exemption that has made him rich. For over twenty years, thanks to this tax loophole, Rubenstein has paid about 20 percentage points less tax…

Inside sales, we hear, is the future of sales, at least in B2B. But as a person who is on the receiving end of inside sales tactics roughly once a month, at least one of two things is true: it doesn’t really work on reasonably informed buyers, or its being…