Noreena Hertz Quotes

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• Terrorism and trade cannot be the only issues on which the world unites. We must commit ourselves to a global coalition to deal with exclusion,…
• All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are…
• Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even…
• With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.
• Consumers, unlike voters, expect an immediate response to their concerns; and companies, unlike governments, do not have the luxury of a mid-term lull.
• In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly…
• What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective…
• Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
• Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.
• I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely…
• My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.
• Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be…
• All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we…
• From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements…
• Without industry, finance and government consciously and collaboratively ensuring that capital flows to where it is needed in order to ensure the scaling up of…
• What about those who help growth indirectly, those who stay at home and look after others - mothers, carers of elderly parents or sick relatives…
• My mother was really involved with the Refusenik campaign with Soviet Union Jews. They would come and stay at our house, some of them, after…
• Women who have managed to get successful normally have had to carve out pretty much their own route for doing it, because there are few…
• I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.
• Employees speak of being fearful opening emails and feeling increasingly helpless in the face of the deluge. Physiologically, we now know that the state of…

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