In the run up to the 4th July 2024 UK General Election, the Conservative Party proposed a new form of National Service for the country's young adults. The question remains what problem are they trying to address and why now?

For the past 20 years, the UK Government has controlled and managed National Spending using ‘Resource Account Budgeting’ (RAB). It is slowly destroying Army capability.

Successful problem solving, decision making and planning require well practised and understood systems and processes to be used. SixFigureGrid speculates what may have been missing from the planing of the Mini Budget 2022.

Today's crisis in Ukraine is nothing new and there are chilling similarities with the situation of 1853, where the Great Powers of the day confronted each other in the same region. There is much that today's leaders can learn from this part of history.

In periods of uncertainty and relentless change (that would appear to be the 21st Century’s ‘new normal’), the last thing you want to be is lost. There are business lessons to learn from map reading.

The UK Ambassador's correspondence about the President of the United States is a timely reminder that there are always risks in communicating in a digital world and you don't need to be an ambassador to fall victim to communications leaks.

Parliamentary democracies are in trouble, paralysed by the inability to find enough common ground from their voters. Without recognition that the situation has changed, there is little chance of current political systems surviving.

The switch to Electric Vehicles (EV) and the rapid advancement of the technology underlying them should be welcomed. However, we should not be deceived that this will end our dependence on hydrocarbons for use on the road, and of course, elsewhere.

The cause of Wonga’s demise are not that it lost its customer base, but that its business model had become unacceptable to the Government. More regulation may be on the way. Information Technology Leaders should take note.

For 70 years, Western Europe lived with predictable world order. This world order has now unravelled.The business world finds itself in a similar position. SixFigureGrid thinks that Leadership Navigation will help.

For the first time in many years, the cohesion of NATO is genuinely threatened and the major threats may not come from the more traditional adversaries. Uncertain times lie ahead.

Hardly a week goes by without a challenge or change to world order. Many hark for a return to ‘how it was’, but this is unlikely. International leaders need to accept the complex and chaotic situations for what they are, and work towards new solutions.

The NHS needs a significant increase in funding to deliver both today’s health and social care requirements and to meet the expectations of the future. However, more money alone will not solve the problems.

21st Century's Information Age: Businesses can be engulfed by crisis more quickly than leaders can react to. New styles of leadership and decision making are needed, that consider Information Age principles:

Traditionally, leaders have required followers who trust and respect them. But in the information-led, post-truth, post-respect, post-authority, post everything world we now inhabit, how will this relationship work in future?

The HoC Select Committees' report into the collapse of Carillion pulls no punches, and they were right so to do. Why then did the CBI feel it necessary to criticise the report?

Leaders in charge of large organisations that have ageing IT enterprise systems need to understand that their very business depends on the IT working and they need to drive the process personally and be held accountable.

A war of words has begun between the Information Technology giants and governments. This is about to escalate, as governments, regulators and affected citizens threaten to take action beyond words.

It may appear that the recent airstrikes in Syria will have little effect on the Syrian Regime and its backers of Iran and Russia. Yet there were very good reasons why they occurred, and why they should have their desired effect.

In March 2018, two separate attacks of terror have demonstrated how fortunate we are in Europe to have police officers that are committed to protecting the public, However, their job is getting harder.

One hundred years on from the defeat and break up of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey is back on the world stage. How should the US, EU and NATO react to that ambition?

Successive UK Governments have made a mess of the university system. It is time for a more realistic look at what university education is for, and how it should be run and funded.

Social media has brought good to the world, but there is a downside. If companies behind social media do not adapt, those that seek to fill the world with division and hate will continue to exploit it.