Uncommon Ground – The Write People

This is the most serious crisis since World War II. Politicians must step up; voters must allow them to. Politicians are elected because they campaign in poetry, but voters don’t always account for the fact that elected representatives must govern in prose. That chasm between the promise and the delivery becomes more dangerous at times […]

Uncommon Ground – by Rohini Nilekani. The Pioneer. View PDF

Excerpted with the permission of Penguin Books India from the book Uncommon Ground: Dialogues between Business and Social Leaders by Rohini Nilekani. View PDF

There is a growing consensus that this crisis is unlike any other, that it’s a discontinuity with potential for great change. The airy cafe at London’s British Museum, just across a hallway exhibiting newly discovered mummies of sacred animals from ancient Egypt, was the perfect place to chat with John Elkington about the Phoenix Economy. […]