Mark Ritson: Ignore all the waffle and set time aside for strategic thinking

Over the Christmas holidays there was a fabulous article about George Shultz. The name might not be familiar to you, but if you are old enough you will remember Shultz as President Ronald Reagan’s avuncular secretary of state. If you were a child of the 1980s you can probably just remember a balding, besuited man stepping off planes into China or the Soviet Union – that was him.
He is still alive. Now 97, he continues to lobby for recreational drugs, for action on climate change and