What’s missing

In addition to “Why we love New York” (see below), there are a number of other points that seem to be missing from the programme. I had lunch today with a Davos regular who I consider a particularly acute judge of key issues. He felt there had been a conscious decision to keep truly difficult, uncomfortable issues off the programme. His plan is to go to workshops and say, “I’m not sure about the questions posed for us. What do you think of this?” A good idea, I think.

Two broad categories are missing for me. First are topics that are hard to categorise. The programme this year has been grouped under six grand themes. But it remains my conviction that the most interesting ideas fall between the cracks of categorisation. Anything that doesn’t have a comfortable pigeonhole has been deleted this year. The second missing category is a session without agenda. Particularly in the difficult times we face today, I’d like an opportunity to sit with a couple of dozen good people and just hear what’s on their minds. There have, on occasion, been such voyages of discovery in Davos. I hope one will pop up in New York.