Chapter Five Ian Fleming gives away the title of Live and Let Die surprisingly early. James Bond has arrived in New York to investigate Mr Big, a powerful criminal leader whom M identifies as a Soviet agent and a known member of SMERSH.[1] Bond wants to go into Harlem

Chapter Four Near the end of Casino Royale, after Le Chiffre is dead and Bond has survived his torture, James Bond and René Mathis begin an extraordinary conversation about the nature of evil. In the previous chapter, I followed that conversation outward through Fleming's later novels, asking how

Chapter Three Among Ian Fleming’s fourteen James Bond books, only once does he appear to suspend the narrative long enough to ask directly what evil is. The conversation between James Bond and René Mathis near the end of Casino Royale is unlike anything else in the Bond canon.[1]

By the time Bill Mundell and I traveled together to the Taihu World Cultural Forum in China in 2012, we had already become friends and colleagues. The forum, an international gathering of leaders from government, academia, business, and the cultural sector, gave us an opportunity to continue our conversations about

Chapter Two James Bond's missions rarely begin with James Bond. They begin in the offices of the Secret Service. Before Bond ever enters M's office, someone has already identified a threat. Intelligence has been collected, reports assembled, priorities weighed, and decisions made. By the time Bond

Chapter One Certain questions have followed me for much of my life. They have surfaced in different settings and through different people, yet they have always returned me to the same subject: institutions. I have wanted to understand why some endure while others slowly lose their way; why some remain

Author's Perspective: An Institutional Governance Essay This essay examines the American constitutional system through the lens of institutional governance and organizational leadership. Its focus is the relationship among authority, responsibility, accountability, and purpose within one of the longest-enduring governance systems in modern history. Institutions are created to

Author's Note: My interest in the legitimacy of international institutions emerged through graduate work in global healthcare leadership at the University of Oxford, participation in a board director program led by Professor Andrew Kakabadse at Henley Business School, and subsequent research into governance, development, and institutional authority. While