If you read the excerpt from Small is Powerful published on this site, you'll know how important E.F. Scumacher is as an inspiration for the book. Even the title is an homage to his popular work Small is Beautiful.

So I was really pleased to be asked to write a post about the great man for The Schumacher Institute. You can find it here.

I do hope he wouldn't be offended but I've been arrogant enough to suggest what he would think of the world three and a half decades after his death. My hunch is he'd love digital technologies and what it is doing for small business and creativity.