The FT Explained

After nearly four years and 69 posts on The FT Explained, I am moving my writing to a new home. Starting this month, I will publish Asymétries, a newsletter in French, on…

This week, I would like to come back to a word that has been circulating with increasing frequency in the financial press, and increasing discomfort in boardrooms: bubble. Not whether we are…

This week, I would like to come back to an observation that some of you may have done over the last few months when opening LinkedIn’s feed. We read about a founder,…

This week, my attention was caught by the increasingly frequent articles warning about the possibility that the ongoing Iranian conflict could lead to an oil shortage — with the major economic consequences…

Two years ago, the worry about generative AI in the enterprise was that it might say something untrue. Today, the worry is that it might do something unwanted. Tomorrow’s worry, if early…

This week, I would like to explore a subject that sits at the crossroads of my background as a scientific engineer, my experience in the business world, and my earlier life as…

“Humor is reason gone mad.” – Groucho Marx This week, I want to talk about a subject that is rarely addressed seriously in the professional world: humor at work. No business school,…

Far from the tumult of global stock markets and heavily publicized geopolitical news, the hushed world of private assets is beginning to shake at its foundations. Rising interest rates, seizing liquidity, sector-wide…

This week, I want to address the AI craze currently sweeping through our professional environments. Some companies, like Accenture, have moved so aggressively that they have reportedly begun tying promotions to AI…

It is now six years since the global pandemic fundamentally upended our collective understanding of the professional landscape. What began as a forced experiment in survival has matured into a permanent architectural…