Every year our family spends 10 days or so at our lake house in Finland.  This is not a random choice as my beautiful wife Maarit was born and grew up in this watery land of thousands of lakes.  (She also reads this blog from time to time,...

My son Walter’s spring soccer season ended today – under the rain.  It’s as if we never left London.  Now I understand how prescient these kids were to name themselves the “Aqua Dominators” at the beginning of their blue-shirted season. The...

I recently participated in a series of video interviews with an innovative online service called big think www.bigthink.com. The site describes itself as "a global forum connecting people and ideas."  In a wide-ranging interview, I discussed my...

A couple of weeks ago some old friends and I headed out to the Meadowlands Izod Center to hear The Dead.  Not exactly The Grateful Dead of old, as Jerry Garcia can never be replaced, but a reformed and worthy sequel.  Rather than seek some pale...

So in Part One I explained why I began to blog and said why I continue to do so was a story for another day.  Fortunately, a bunch of you took the pregnant hint and requested Part Two of the story.  For a change I will lay out the answer...

I often get asked why I decided to write a blog. The answer unfortunately is not that I felt I had anything so important to say that I needed to share it with my 10,000 closest friends. Rather, the reasons were quite selfish - I wanted to learn. I...

I spoke recently at an interesting monthly gathering of smart, switched-on tech and media leaders in Brooklyn organized by the very talented Sam Lessin – also known among friends of his accomplished father Bob, as “Lessin 2.0.”  The salon is called...

Having just watched the tender movie, Marley and Me, about the irrepressible blond Labrador, I realized that our dog Luna is the only one of our “children” who has not figured prominently in this blog.  Luna does not get taken to the museum or on...

Some of the readers of this blog have requested that I discuss the current financial crisis and resulting recession.  As I shy away from subjects too close to the business of Thomson Reuters, in part to avoid 20 pages of risk factors in each post,...

With Bernie Madoff locked-up in the Manhattan Correctional Center, better known to New Yorkers as ‘the Tombs”  (a fitting place for him to enter prison life, never to return),  I thought I would share one of the odder thoughts (or mental hyperlinks)...

Following our recent Night at the Museum (see separate blog entry below) and thanks to a bad flu in the family, Mariana and I found ourselves on a long holiday ski weekend that turned into another father-daughter outing. Clearly part of Mariana’s pleasure...

A couple of weeks ago my daughter Mariana and I spent a night at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  Just as in the eponymous movie, we slept (actually not much) surrounded by dinosaurs, stuffed grizzly bears and Teddy Roosevelt....

In his now famous 1989 essay, The End of History, Francis Fukuyama argued that the spread of  Western liberal democracy represented an end of history in the Hegelian sense that the progression of history towards an ultimate goal had, in fact, been...

But journalism is alive and well.    Lionel Barber of the FT masterfully moderated the 2009 installment in the long-running Davos debate on the health of the media, entitled "Fragility in the Fourth Estate."  Joining me on the panel were...

One of the privileges of being Chief Executive of Thomson Reuters is that I get to meet some very interesting people and have access to events and places that I don't flatter myself into believing would be available to me otherwise.  One such event...

We have hosted a lot of important visitors at Thomson Reuters headquarters. Over the years we have had Prime Ministers, Heads of State, Royalty, Chancellors and Treasury Secretaries, Central Bank Governors,  the Secretary General...

Unsurprisingly, my prior Obama post (Obama and The City on the Hill) attracted significant comment.  I agree with the reply that "Obama is colorless."  This is what is truly historic.  America has advanced to the point at which an African...

It is a new America to which I return after a long election week's trip to Asia.  This is not a political opinion, but a historic one.   For those of us who grew up in the 1960s, even grew up white in America, it was the decade of the...

Those who know me well, know that my reading list infrequently departs from fiction as I find literature provides a healthy and spiritually fulfilling counterbalance to a professional life deeply rooted in business prose. When I do so depart, it is usually...

"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into, Ollie."  So might Stan Laurel summarize  the position of the average citizen in the global financial crisis.  In a similar vein, government officials, legislators and...

Unsurprisingly, there has been a lot of comment on my post  "The Great Repricing."  Since the original post, Congress has now passed the rescue bill, and there are some signs of stability appearing in the banking world (viz Wells Fargo's...

Although our family recently moved from London to New York, one aspect of my life  has remained constant: Pacing the sidelines at my son's weekend Soccer games.  I don't know about Sarah Palin's family but in mine and most of the others I see...

Running Thomson Reuters provides me a ringside seat on the global economy.  A huge proportion of the world's trading in stocks, bonds, foreign currencies and other instruments pass through our systems every day.  In addition, our 2600 journalists...

My family and I recently moved back to New York from London, entailing the usual house, office and school changes.  As much as I was dreading the hassle associated with forwarding mail, changing bank accounts and packing boxes, I have to say it is...

  What goes on in Sun Valley, stays in Sun Valley.  Those are the ground rules and I may be one of the few attendees of this, the best organized and most rewarding business conference, to respect the wishes of our hosts.  However, without...