The Inside Track

The Question France Can't Stop Asking [Invisible Systems: Power]

Stiglitz, Piketty, and the fight beneath the protests

3 good news stories for the planet. 20 October

Cheap solar, a whale sanctuary off China, and peccaries back in Costa Rica: three pieces of good news for the planet, and one mechanism underneath.

The Climate Issue You Hardly Think Of

And Why It Matters More Than You Think

Three signals. 13 October

The Arctic, the clean-energy race, and Qatar in Africa: three decisions about who shapes the energy future.

Three signals. 6 October

A fuel cap, a grid fight, a seabed rush: three moments when states take back control of resources.

Vatican theologians call harm to nature a sin. Carbon markets call it a fee. [Invisible Systems: Money]

A fine says it was wrong. A fee says how much.

Three signals. 29 September

A whale, a salmon, a river: three pieces of good news for the planet, and one mechanism underneath.

The person between the rooms. [Invisible Systems : Power]

Two leaders everyone recognises, and between them a man almost nobody could name. Why influence in a system often sits in the gap between groups, not at the top.

1 in 5 People Employed by A Bay They Declared Dead [Invisible Systems: Resilience.]

A single restored wetland the size of a large farm quietly filters more pollution than anyone gave it credit for.

The Power to Fix This Already Exists. Nobody Has Used It. [Invisible Systems: Power.]

A simple filter can capture up to 90% of laundry microfibres before they reach the ocean. One country already requires it. Most don't.

The Day Starts With Light, not with an alarm clock. [Invisible Systems: Time.]

The calendar on your wall isn't time. It's a decision someone else made for you.

How to make sure things work out in the long run. [Invisible Systems: Power]

Bringing something back from almost nothing is the easy part. Deciding who gets real power over it is what actually determines whether it lasts.

After the USAID Cuts: Where the Money Went, and Where the Jobs Are Now

The development sector lost its largest donor overnight. The money moved, and if you know where it went, you know where the jobs are now.

You cannot govern what you cannot name [Invisible Systems: Language.]

Japan named the thing that was killing people. That is how governance actually works.

Who Gets to Say What Nature Is? Right Now, They Do [Invisible Systems: Language.]

The definition fight over "nature" and why The Inside Track is now live!

Hope Is a Discipline, Not a Mood [Invisible Systems: Resilience.]

Why the strongest leaders treat hope as a discipline, not a mood, and how to tell lucid hope from wishful thinking.

You don't have a growth problem. You have a needs problem [Invisible Systems: Money.]

Why the smartest organisations are quietly abandoning "more" as a goal, and how to tell a real need from an expensive want.

The future is not uncertain. Your map is outdated [Invisible Systems: Time.]

Why the instruments we trust to see the future keep failing, and what to do about it.

North is not up. It never was [Invisible Systems: Culture.]

Collective bias: the conventions your sector never chose

The institutions are retreating. Guess who's replacing them [Invisible Systems: Power.]

Who moved in when the institutions moved out ? And a 3 question test to know if you're learning at the speed your sector is changing.

Your industry's "sustainable version" might just be the old one in a costume [Invisible Systems: Culture.]

[Invisible system: Resilience.] Stop networking. Start dividing the work.

Why cross-team cooperation beats individual networking — and a framework to act on it by Monday.

A world in reconfiguration (and how you can adapt)

How geopolitical shifts, AI disruption, and climate pressure are reshaping industries — and the strategic moves to stay ahead.

Wide Angle

Episode 1: How can your industry prepare for Super El Niño ?