CNN January 17, 2014
I learned a new word today: Heterarchy. I came across it buried in this year's Davos theme. Apparently it means multiple structures, overlapping, interacting, connecting and networking. Good grief, am I really climbing a Swiss mountain to learn about an arcane corner of the English dictionary?
The theme is set each year by the World Economic Forum.
It is invariably a wordy bit of pretentious nonsense, designed to sum
up what they hope we will focus upon in our meetings in the Swiss Alps.
This year its headline is "The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for
Society, Politics and Business."
Often the theme is
overtaken by crises, pressing issues and economic fires, and everyone
long forgets all about it before the first marshmallows have melted into
the first hot chocolates.
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