The Hames Report

As we become accustomed to higher petrol prices resulting from Israeli threats to attack Iran, it is timely to ask whether the West's current approach to Iran really serves our interests. My critique centres on three points: The outrage about...

Innovation has become the new ‘in’ thing. Some suggest it may be the sole source of future competitive advantage and consequently an imperative no organization can afford to ignore. I tend to agree. Furthermore I believe it applies equally to...

Men in suits get so excited about large mergers. The bigger the better. I think it must have something to do with testosterone. Personally I have never understood what all the excitement is about. But then I’ve never quite comprehended...

The drums of war are beating furiously across old empires. Once more it is the terrified emperors, led by self-proclaimed, sanctimonious protectors, who are exercising a penchant for confrontation. Their favoured occupation of war mongering has taken precedence yet again...

Just recently Suna and I took a much deserved vacation in France. We had planned a week in Provence, sharing a villa in Gordes with a couple of friends, followed by a week in Montmartre where we had rented a...

Conferences, summits, seminars, conventions, international forums…. It seems the events management scene these days is awash with meetings in which VIPs, celebrities, politicians and self-nominated experts come together, supposedly intent on finding solutions to some of our most pressing problems....

For some years now the developed world has faced critical shortages of knowledge and skills in the workforce. Established talent pools have shrunk while new ones, continuously forming, are as yet relatively unfamiliar. This problem has been caused (in part...

A steady stream of interruptions to the Olympic torch parade in several countries together with high profile stunts by the Chinese, like lighting the flame on the top of Mount Everest, ensures only that activists will continue to take aim...

So goes the first line of a song by Hot Chocolate dating from the early eighties. This post has nothing to do with sex – or even chocolate come to that. Its just a teasing title. My saga actually started...

Do I detect a trace of Tiananmen Square hanging in the spring air of Lhasa? Is that really brutal oppression I see on my television screen? Or simply justice and the rule of law taking its course? After the crushed...