How to succeed in the collaborative economy  I find that I am perplexed by an increasing number of things. I don’t know whether it’s just that there are more things to be perplexed about, or I’m just more easily bemused these days. One of the main things that bothers me is the disconnect between the skills that today’s graduates are…

At a dinner party last week I was asked by a yummy mummy, what field should she encourage her daughter to go into and what academic choices would I advise she make? The kid is 8.  Now my first instinctive reaction was that this was more than a little over the top. I wondered if I had encountered a good dose of PMS (Pushy Mother Syndrome)…