Without going into the finer details of the whole book, I would like to focus on its final chapter.Ĭlients and consultants quite rightly always have an array of questions for their investment managers. If you are interested in the politics of nations, how states work and why some wars are worth fighting and some are not, why the world functions as it does in international relations, then I highly recommend it. His recommendation was that the best book that he had ever read, explaining how the world works, was World Order by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
At the end of our meeting, I asked him whether his thinking was captured anywhere that I could read more about.
It was one of those conversations that brings a clarity to topics that appear to be deeply complex. He had a genuinely differentiated perspective on how the world actually works, as opposed to what we read in the papers. So it was that a year or two ago I had a meeting with a former British spy. In this job we’re fortunate to meet lots of great people – smart people, interesting people, quirky people.
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