"As disengagement and dissatisfaction with the public realm has spread, so the emphasis on reconnecting people with public institutions has naturally grown. As a result, heavy scrutiny has fallen on the ability of politicians and public services to deliver. But people ...Read More
Notable mainly because my entrepreneurial co-author, Paul Miller, has taken the kernel of one of our ideas and turned it into the soon-to-be world dominating tech start-up www.schoolofeverything.com, this pamphlet explored the conflicting pressure on organisational leaders, torn between a ...Read More
Networks are the most important organisational form of our time, but are often mis-managed and misunderstood. In this collection of essays, leading thinkers including Manuel Castells, Fritjof Capra, Howard Rheingold and Geoff Mulgan show how we can unlock their full ...Read More
Written five years before the global financial crisis, this pamphlet now seems both prescient and shockingly naive. It rightly anticipated that complexity and the unduly narrow focus of regulatory regimes were storing up trouble for the future. But its prescriptions, ...Read More
This pamphlet, which generated more media coverage than all the others put together, took a fresh look at a familiar challenge: a rapidly ageing population as the baby boom generation reach later life. It urged policy-makers to look beyond ...Read More
My very first pamphlet for Demos argued that the A-level assessment and qualifications framework was failing students, and called for a better balance between assessment for learning and assessment of learning. “Qualifications should qualify you for something - ...Read More