The slogan Stay Alert has had a pretty bad press. Politicians and pundits have revelled in its vacuity. As a slogan, they say, it lacks the clarity of its forbear, Stay Home. At least in the days of Stay Home, the people of England knew where they stood. Along with their counterparts in Wales and Northern Ireland, the authorities in Scotland will shortly have to wheel out their own new slogan. How much should we really be expecting a slogan to do our thinking for us?
Before the pandemic, few would have argued that saving life should be the ultimate goal of public policy. And yet we now find ourselves facing up to questions about how far we should be willing to go to save life, how calculations of quantity and quality of life should play into the decisions we make, and how we should understand notions of cost and benefit in the context of life and death. This article explores these questions, testing out some of our deepest intuitions along the way.
ShareThe very best executive education has a strong element of performance to it, engaging a senior executive audience (many of whom may have had no experience of education for many years) and getting its members not just to understand new concepts, methods and ways of leading but also to adopt them and change their behaviour. In the wake of the pandemic, almost all executive education has stalled, with many of its clients either cancelling or re-scheduled planned sessions. Christopher Lake and Adam Gold look to what the future might hold.
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