Seriously, the United Kingdom, the world's fifth-largest economy - a country whose elites created modern parliamentary democracy, modern banking and finance, the Industrial Revolution and the whole concept of globalization - seems dead-set on quitting the European Union, the world's largest market for the free movement of goods, capital, services and labor, without a well-conceived plan, or maybe without any plan at all.
What do the most effective leaders today have in common? They wake up every morning and ask themselves the same questions: "What world am I living in? What are the biggest trends in this world? And how do I educate my citizens about this world and align my policies so more of my people can get the best out of these trends and cushion the worst?".
So what world are we living in? For starters, we're living in a world that is becoming so interconnected - thanks to digitization, the internet, broadband, mobile devices, the cloud and soon-to-be 5G wireless transmissions - that we are becoming interdependent to an unprecedented degree.
Trump believes in competitive nationalism, and the very reason he is promoting the breakup of the E.U. is that he believes America can dominate the E.U.'s individual economies much better than when they negotiate together as the single biggest market in the world.
The second thing the best leaders understand is that in a world of simultaneous accelerations in technology and globalization, keeping your country as open as possible to as many flows as possible is advantageous for two reasons: You get all the change signals first and have to respond to them and you attract the most high-I.Q. risk-takers, who tend to be the people who start or advance new companies.
The U.K. membership in the E.U. has given it an outsize voice in world affairs.
How quickly they've all forgotten that the E.U. and NATO were built to prevent the very competitive nationalism that ran riot in Europe in the 20th century and brought us two world wars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/opinion/brexit-news.html
What do the most effective leaders today have in common? They wake up every morning and ask themselves the same questions: "What world am I living in? What are the biggest trends in this world? And how do I educate my citizens about this world and align my policies so more of my people can get the best out of these trends and cushion the worst?".
So what world are we living in? For starters, we're living in a world that is becoming so interconnected - thanks to digitization, the internet, broadband, mobile devices, the cloud and soon-to-be 5G wireless transmissions - that we are becoming interdependent to an unprecedented degree.
Trump believes in competitive nationalism, and the very reason he is promoting the breakup of the E.U. is that he believes America can dominate the E.U.'s individual economies much better than when they negotiate together as the single biggest market in the world.
The second thing the best leaders understand is that in a world of simultaneous accelerations in technology and globalization, keeping your country as open as possible to as many flows as possible is advantageous for two reasons: You get all the change signals first and have to respond to them and you attract the most high-I.Q. risk-takers, who tend to be the people who start or advance new companies.
The U.K. membership in the E.U. has given it an outsize voice in world affairs.
How quickly they've all forgotten that the E.U. and NATO were built to prevent the very competitive nationalism that ran riot in Europe in the 20th century and brought us two world wars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/opinion/brexit-news.html
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