Richard Merrick

A Year of Intention. I have a sense that 2025 was only the warm-up act for 2026, and that this year we step into the main act, whether we are ready or not. America will have to get to grips with its Trump hangover and the discovery that after

When we talk about the failure of organisations or societies, our language tends to be structural. We point to broken institutions, outdated business models, political polarisation and technological disruption. Our instinct is to pursue redesign: new strategies, new systems, new rules, new tools. I think this misses the deeper problem.

In my last post, I considered that we need to make haste slowly. To stand back a little and go back to first principles. What is really going on here? What can we learn from what has happened before? Are we really where we think we are, or are we

The times are urgent. We must slow down. Bayo Akomolafe If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. African Proverb We seem to be suffering from an epidemic of urgency. Everything around us is geared, even unconsciously, to speed. Exploration plays second