Much though it still doesn’t feel like a proper year has gone by (how are we still in this locked down state) it is time to go through the best writing on innovation from 2021. Why? Well, because this is kind of an annual thing now (see last year’s here…

There will be 25% more 18 year olds in the UK in 2030 than there were in 2020 — and the effects will be cultural, commercial and creative We now talk about trends more than maybe ever before but this is mostly dominated by voices focussed on tech and a…

Organisations used to want to be bigger than now. Now they just want to be relevant. Will we have to reinvent institutions? There are now startups, there are brands big and small, there are charities, there are government agencies, there are even the family offices of entrepreneurs. …

We’re re-judging the plainly flavourful In 90s and noughties Britain, vanilla meant plain. To understand this world you have to understand the rules of this. In this time you could tell a person of taste because they had tasted things you hadn’t. They liked different music you probably hadn’t heard…

Its time to make change happen, not just talk about it, one organisation at a time Today we’re opening up about something the Label Ventures team have been nurturing for a little while. We’re launching an accelerator programme helping organisations around the world succeed in the new economy after lockdown…

For the last few years I have been capturing a list of the best writing I have found on innovation over the previous 12 months. The whole thing is a ruse to get people to tell me the books I’ve stupidly left out. On the flip side, people very often…

What happens when we’ve all had a crisis? For a start we need a different way of thinking about the future Do you remember when the old days were a long time ago? When you had to think back a long way to get to a time and place in…

People have had a lot of time to themselves in 2020, and the impact on the ways we think about work are so fundamental it will be easy to miss, but important not to. It is time to shape what it is that replaces hustle culture. When people say that…