1 All change

‘My own world has changed. I just don’t think we will be able to put the genie back in the bottle. There will be a new business order coming out of all of this.’

Henry Fernandez, president and CEO of MSCI Barra

The universal truth of change

Fast, turbulent, mind blowing, exciting, scary. It has never been more difficult to make sense of the world.

Change rules. ‘Our sales are half what they were this time last year, which is a challenge. But I think we’re in the same place that a hell of a lot of other people are in right now’, one CEO told us. ‘The focus on performance is finer. When you are growing at 35 per cent everybody benefits; when your growth goes down to 11 per cent or 12 per cent, the separation between the poor and ...

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