Every now and again, you read something and think:
‘I wish I’d written that.’
It happened to me twice in April. And both pieces, broadly speaking, dealt with the same topic.
The first was Parag Khanna’s brilliant feature, The Great Migration, in the last issue of this magazine (Q2 2017, page 20). If you haven’t yet got to it, stop reading this and go and read it now. Really.
Because this truly excellent treatise on the rise of what Parag calls the ‘Independent Republic of the Supply Chain - ‘global citizens whose identity is tied into their journey, rather than their country of origin’ - should have every supposedly ‘global brand’ thinking very, very hard.
As should the second piece I wish I’d written. James Allen’s Why the Exurbs Are Poised to Take Off in the Coming Years, for The Wall Street Journal, considers the power of ‘new platform technologies’ to ‘transform urban patterns in advanced economies by enabling millions of people to move out of cities, and shake up established models of...
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