It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
Umair HaqueIt's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.
Umair HaqueThe direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.
Umair HaqueYes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or its closest moral equivalent. 200 years ago, debtors didn't go bankrupt, they went to prison. 100 years ago - well, business is largely the same as it was a century ago. And that's exactly the problem. Business hasn't changed, but today's array of tectonic global shocks demands a different, radically better kind of business. Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.
Umair Haque