Tim Harford, the Financial Times’s ‘undercover economist’,  looks at management lessons from the war in Iraq in one of a series of festival debates on leadership. He compares the success of top-down and bottom-up decision-making in that war and looks at the role of technology in decision-making. Harford also weaves in psychological research on conformity and ‘groupthink’, and asks what it takes to turn around a failing organisation at a time of crisis.
Harford writes the undercover economist column for the Financial Times and runs the ‘Dear Economist’ problem page. His first book, The Undercover Economist, has sold one million copies worldwide. He has also published The Logic of Life and Dear Undercover Economist. He also presented the BBC TV series Trust Me, I’m an Economist.

This event is supported by Ian and Carol Sellars.