Frontline Insights

Nuanced insights and fresh perspectives on today’s most pressing issues and forces shaping our world

| Conflict Narratives

The Thucydides Trap is a lie created to justify a US-China war

Ancient Greece offers no lessons for Asia. The Global South must stop letting America’s war machine write history

| Succession Planning

Beyond performance: Rethinking leadership succession based on evidence

The most consequential decision in your organisation is also the least evidence-based. Here’s what’s missing.

| Finite Resources

Leadership in an age of water bankruptcy

Water scarcity is becoming structural, not cyclical. What happens when water systems stop recovering and are leaders prepared for that reality?

| Talent Development

How recent graduates entering the job market can outperform AI

AI is not just replacing jobs. It is quietly eroding the cognitive and interpersonal skills young professionals need to stay valuable in an automated future.

| Water Pollution

Pigs might fly — but they’re not what’s polluting our rivers

Are pig farms really polluting our rivers or are we ignoring bigger culprits like sewage, mining and weak enforcement?

| Civilisation

Beyond the glass ceiling: The case for stewardship

Women don't need more seats at a broken table. They need to redesign it. And stewardship is the blueprint.

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