Taking a look from outside

An excellent discussion this morning on Radio 4's 'Start the Week'.

Gillian Tett is credited with being one of the first financial journalists to spot the credit crunch coming. How did she do it? It was her experience of social anthropology - she spent a year in Tajikistan during for her PhD - that gave her the insight that there was a common delusion going on.

The Radio 4 programme is currently featured here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jwxz0

And this Guardian article also gives an insight:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/31/creditcrunch-gillian-tett-financial-times

So I find this interesting as a consumer, but even more interesting as an educator (hooray for the concept of a liberal education) and a coach of managers who have precious little time to look at things from the outside.