Anecdotes that summarise the World Economic Forum
Thought these two small stories summarised the WEF well. It just finished this week in Davos Switzerland. Incidentally the big story this year was the global economy, and the fallout of the subprime market.
BBC NEWS | Business | Davos bosses get a reality check
Another Davos newcomer was George Osborne, the UK’s shadow chancellor … … “The strangest moment of the week was when I introduced Tony Blair to Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook,” said Mr Osborne.For Tim Brown, chief executive of design firm Ideo (which helped develop the first mouse for Apple computers and invented the laptop), it [his strangest moment] was the morning when he stood in a room full of oil company executives and oil ministers to talk about innovation.
“I was later told that I spoke to the people in charge of about 80% of the world oil production,” he said.
