Life is Messi…ah yes, that too! In the wake of the 2022 Football World Cup Final that was held in Qatar, we witnessed the embodiment and the worldwide broadcast of how and why life is indeed truly messy. The event was at once divisive, diverting and divine. To...
The outlook for business is laced with dark clouds Over the past two years, governments have printed extraordinary sums of money to “buoy” the economy. In the process, the trend toward bigger government continues inexorably onward. In some countries, the government...
Minter Dialogue with Annemarie Shrouder Annemarie Shrouder is an international speaker, consultant and facilitator on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. She’s also author of “Being Brown in a Black and White World: Conversations for Leaders on Race,...
“You’re a bigot and a racist!” Those were the words spoken to me after a speech I made three years ago. They came with not a little vitriol at an otherwise civilized meeting held at the BBC HQ, where about 200 journalists were on hand to discuss the...
A divided and existential experience This pandemic has allowed many of us more time and new reason to think. It seems that time went through some kind of vortex as we slowed down to deal with the sanitary issues. Our appreciation of time evolved, too. Sure, we...
To be labelled as tribal these days is frequently considered a bad thing. Tribalism has negative connotations. At a minimum, it’s associated with driving a gap between “us and them” and often suggests some form of sense of superiority. At its worst,...