URSABLOG: Changing Seasons In Tokyo
I hadn’t been to Japan since before the pandemic, so I was really looking forward to getting back, seeing how things had changed, tasting the wonderful food (it’s not just sush
URSBLOG: In Transit
If you ever want to get a feeling of how intricately the world is connected, and take the temperature of the health of globalization, you can do worse that spend a few minutes and
URSABLOG: Continuing The Conversation
The unravelling of globalisation seems to continue to gather pace. Everywhere you look, there are signs of fragmentation as world trade fractures into different blocs. China has an
URSABLOG: Subject To Life
It’s never an easy phone call to make. I had called earlier in the day warning my client that we were expecting bad news, and now I was disturbing his lunch to confirm it. The bu
URSABLOG: Don’t Write Shipowners Off
It had all the hallmarks of a great idea talked about over a long lunch in the City by no doubt very intelligent people nonetheless hampered by ignorance. You can almost imagine it
URSABLOG: Life Cycle Lessons
Like many very good – and very bad – ideas it started with a lunch. I had gone to see George Mangos, and his brother Christos, of the Interunity Group to brainstorm a little bi
URSABLOG: The Cranes Are Listening
Once upon a time, a long time ago, before Covid and entry into our language of phrases like ‘supply chain bottlenecks’ and ‘friend shoring’, before Ever Given memes were
URSABLOG: As Luck Would Have It
Many years ago I was invited to a presentation by the Japanese Embassy here in Athens, where two speakers, one from Toyota and the other from Nintendo, described their company phil
URSABLOG: Reading, Fast and Slow
I remember once having a conversation with an old friend of mine, an academic, and he was lamenting – as many people of my age group tend to do these days – about the seeming i
URSABLOG: Seeing Is Believing?
My Facebook and Instagram accounts got hacked the other week. It was my fault, I wasn’t paying attention. Someone I knew sent me a text asking me to vote for them in a talent con