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A Fuller fortnight

A week can sometimes be a long time in politics or finance, but for the entrepreneur, each week is always long, diverse and challenging.

My last one concluded with a rare day off – visiting the Buckminster Fuller exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York. Bucky, as he was known, was a leading American inventor, scientist and architect, who created the Geodesic dome, making dome-shaped structures stronger and easier to construct. He also pioneered thinking about a sustainable world. Following the Great Depression, he set out challenges such as improving the design of products while using less... read more...

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