For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
Margaret HeffernanBritish innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
Margaret HeffernanInstead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequalityโand the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.
Margaret HeffernanWe know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.
Margaret Heffernan