The Global Competitiveness Report 2016-17 from the World Economic Forum, published this week, warns about a trend towards protectionism that could hinder future competitiveness and growth. Should we worry about it? Well, let´s first analyze the data. The report compares the average answers by group of countries to four variables that indicate openness. These variables are:…

The American electorate and the rest of us will, most certainly, have some interesting viewing time ahead with the prospect of three of the most divisive debates of any US elections in history.

The wide spread fraud at Wells Fargo Bank is an example of what happens when Management puts pressure without adequate controls and breaks the law. This is a problem in environmental sustainability as well as in financial fraud as in this case.

In my last blog post I wrote about social neuroscience and the SCARF theory, which explains social behavior based on our brain principle known as ‘threat and reward response’. The theory posits that within social interactions our experience is influenced either by perceived threat or reward in one or several of five domains: status, certainty,…