I’m currently reading The Hare and the Tortoise, a collection of articles and essays by economist, consultand and FT columnist John Kay.
It is very enjoyable book about … economics!
How strange. But it truely is very well written and very easy to read book.
The book title comes from the first chapter, online for free, is a nice little dig at consultants:
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The consultants explained that the tortoise could not run as fast as the hare because the tortoise had short legs and a heavy body. An elegant diagram summarised it all. One axis described length of legs; the other, body weight. The best position was long legs, low body weight; the worst short legs, high body weight. There was a picture of a hare in one box, a tortoise in another, and an arrow to show how the tortoise needed to move, or re-engineer itself, as the consultants put it. The tortoise rolled on its shell in delight. These people did not, like some consultants, merely relay back what you had already told them: they provided explanation and analysis. “What relevance! What insight!”, the tortoise chortled.
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