The Hames Report

Instinct is a wonderful thing if you are prepared to act on it. My instinct is nearly always right. This time something had told me I should have taken the car. But I ignored it and brushed any fears aside....

It is time that we faced facts. In spite of the many millions of dollars spent by companies and governments around the world each year, the strategies we are using to develop leaders and embed leadership have failed us. They...

From a global perspective there are any number of co-evolutionary patterns that have been remodeling society culturally, geopolitically and economically, over several centuries. All have profound implications for society, especially in their current trajectories. But one stands out as the...

The history of our civilization is littered with wars, bloodshed and genocide. Conflict is deeply ingrained within our culture. So too is intolerance, repression and violence. We fight each other at the slightest provocation in the name of religion, race,...

Economists and bankers one day; university vice-chancellors the next! Life is never dull in the world of corporate philosophy. Especially when traditional belief systems deserve a good shake up. Universities have endured for centuries. Why should they need to change...

Recently I was sitting down to lunch with an eminent group of people from the financial services sector in New York. Those present, who had come to hear me talk about the future of the global economy, were chief financial...

Water is running out! So warned United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos where he told delegates that actions to prevent discord over water shortages would need to be at the very top of...

Since last year’s publication of The Five Literacies of Global Leadership I am often asked for examples of leaders who practice the five literacies. I confess to treating such requests with disinterest, even disdain. In truth there is probably an...

1. Predictions-R-Us! Predictions. Forecasts - especially highly contentious ones. That’s what people want (indeed what they expect) from one so branded. What are the omens? Tell us what the future will be, they ask. Which trends are important? Which merely...

I started work as a corporate strategist in the late 1980s. For anyone with half a brain (the left half mind you - no creativity was expected) life was a cinch. For some decades the standard business proposition had been...