Renaissance Realised
Nigerian activist Seun Kuti spoke recently about the need for ‘government to serve us’, rather than ‘us to serve government’. His challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan serves as a perfect aphorism for the global landscape surrounding government, as evidenced by the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer, launched today at the World Economic Forum in Davos. More...
How might ‘Davos-man’ regain trust?
Professor Klaus Schwab, Executive Chair of WEF wrote recently about this year’s Davos theme of ‘Shaping new models for structural transformation of the global economy’. We could certainly do with some new models. So what can we learn about these new models from this year’s Edelman Trust Barometer which Richard Edelman will be presenting in...
Europe: The Crucible of Trust
Monday 23 January sees the launch of the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer – with its core message that trust in government has fallen dramatically worldwide, and that business now has the opportunity to shift from protecting its License to Operate to properly earning its License to Lead. There is a global sense of citizens rising...
Who Do We Trust
I have spent the past twenty four hours in a luxurious retreat in the hillsides surrounding Lisbon, listening to the great and good of the global PR industry consider ‘the future’ and what it all really means. Peter Gummer/ Lord Chadlington (for they are one in the same) sparked, for me at least, a frisson...
Beyond the Bankers: The Advance of Citizen Capitalism
The publication of two significant works within the past fortnight signposts a welcome shift in conversation about New Economics and ‘new’ business models in the wake of the great crises of our time.
Davos’s Citizen Renaissance
A new report The Consumption Dilemma launched by the WEF last week in Davos has an interesting section talking about the shifts from ‘consumer’ to ‘citizen’ which we first discussed in Citizen Renaissance. The report quotes Citizen Renaissance co-author Robert saying “We are sensing a return to citizen, rather than consumer, values – proof positive that it is...
Small society, Big Bang
As Professor Tim Jackson says in his TED talk we live in times where we “spend money we don’t have, on things we don’t need, to create impressions that won’t last, on people we don’t care about.” As we have written in Citizen Renaissance, our hyper-consumerist lifestyles are fueled by unsustainable credit-bubble, debt-based growth which...
Heading Our Way: Why the Re-Alignment of Trust is Good News for The Citizen
Today’s publication of the 2011 Edelman Trust Barometer, also covered in The FT, confirms the re-alignment of Trust in the wake of the great crises of recent years.
Big Society through the crystal ball
Great Edelman event this week all about the Big Society. Nick Hurd MP explained his view of what Big Society actually means. Peter Oborne journo'ed it out with Kevin Maguire while the other two panellists - Greenpeace's John Sauven and London 2012 Chair John Armitt CBE - both provided interesting perspectives.
