The Last Word: What would it look like if schools re-embraced ambiguity?
The Last Word is a series of columns, originally published on the Emerging Europe website. I cover a wide range of topics: leadership, sustainability, technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, geopolitics, site selection and global business services.
Investors are becoming more selective, more cautious, and more data-driven than ever before. Locations need to step up.
In a world that profits from your distraction, reinvention becomes a quiet act of rebellion.
Reinvention isn’t always about upgrades and optimisation. Sometimes, it’s about starting from scratch.
Most education systems still reward specialisation over adaptability, certainty over curiosity, and memorisation over creativity.
Reinvention doesn’t happen in a single moment. It’s not a dramatic pivot or a sudden epiphany. It’s a process—one that demands clarity, discipline, and self-awareness. And in my experience, there’s no better tool for that than journalling.
Reinvention isn’t a response to crisis. It’s what stops a crisis from happening in the first place.