Sometimes, there are parts of something we say or write that we find haven't finished with us. They demand more attention.
I found this to be the case with the post I wrote on Sunday. I referred to the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where gold is used to recreate broken ceramics in a form that is different to, but in many ways more beautifiul than the original. It left me with three questions to think about - what is it with the way we work that is broken; what are the pieces we are left with, and where do we find the gold with which to bring them back together into something beautiful?
What is broken?
The two platforms on which we have created the world we live in are democracy and capitalism. What Churchill said of democracy can also be said I think about Capitalism:
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the wo…
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