Leadership

Participants in each market, faced with threats, had to put competitive behaviour aside and realise the strength of collaboration.

There are really only three types of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, 'What happened?' Which group would you rather be in?

highly motivated teams, who are motivated by the 'end' (the cause) rather than the 'method' (the task)

individuals throughout an organisation are usually far more passionate and committed to the organisation than in most for-profit companies

Third sector organisations have learnt, through necessity, to rally their teams around a common goal

This has been a heart-wrenching day, and I will never forget the destruction and suffering that I have witnessed. I have visited the scenes of many natural disasters around the world, but nothing like this. The scale is so large: so many people, in so many places, in so much need.

Former UN Secretary-General, served two five-year terms.

Saying people have the ability to participate in decisions, and actually ensuring they can, should not be mutually exclusive. Our nations, economies and companies can perform far better where we genuinely allow and encourage participation in governance and policy from all stakeholders.

By creating public scapegoats of an entire industry- politicians are doing more to harm the future growth of our nation than any other economic policy.

When you are a public company, you are all-but forced to think on a quarterly basis. That's how long people hold you on average, between 2-3 months is the average hold period for equity investors. It's therefore much more difficult to think in a long-term strategic way and increase value.

The inconvenient-truth of this situation is that however many observers and commentators espouse rhetoric about solutions for this crisis, without buy-in from the individuals who are responsible for our economy? those words are in vain.

You cannot govern a 21st century globalised business with the management style of an 18th century trading firm. In the same way, the modes (and rationale) of governance must be brought up-to-speed with the nature of the citizens they are responsible for.

Policy-makers will have to do the two things which, more than anything, they avoid at all costs. Firstly Accept responsibility and be secondly… be honest…

We have to acknowledge that the global economic recovery that we started to see in 2009 was the first economic cycle since World War II that was not led by the US, but by China.

Founder of Gavekal Research & Investment Strategist

As far as I'm concerned any business that's up and running within an hour of having mortar [attacks shows remarkable resilience].

Mathematician & Topologist, Solved the 4-Dimensional Poincaré Conjecture

Everything you do in life that's worthwhile entails some risk, that's the nature of exploration and the nature of adventure.

Astronaut on Apollo 16 Moon Landing Mission

We are at a crossroads where we can either win this battle against HIV or we can lose it. The science is there, the tools are there, but what we need now is the political will and the resources to finish the job.

Former Executive Director of UNAIDS, leading global HIV/AIDS response efforts