Leadership books are everywhere, yet real leadership has never felt rarer. In Good Leader, Bad Leader, veteran strategist and sharp-eyed commentator Martyn Jones cuts through the sanitized corporate clichés to deliver an electrifying, unvarnished look at what actually drives executive success—and what triggers disastrous failure.
Laughing@Data.Com (often discussed alongside The 2030 Data Agenda essays and writings) is a satirical and polemical book by veteran data architect and consultant Martyn Rhisiart Jones.
Part memoir, part industry autopsy, and part manifesto, the book takes a witty and sharp look at the absurdity of the IT and enterprise data world. Rather than being another standard tech guide, it functions as a survival manual for anyone dealing with corporate tech hype cycles.
Meta-Meta Description: Discover how data architecture, data meshes, and entity resolution can end offshore tax evasion in Martyn Jones’s fascinating, educational, entertaining and informative book, Revealing Wealth.
Every year, an estimated $480 billion in tax revenue is lost to offshore accounts, shell companies, and opaque trusts. While investigative leaks like the Panama Papers periodically expose illicit financial flows, enterprise data architect Martyn Richard Jones argues that relying on whistleblowers is not enough.
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Unmasking Trillions: How Data Architecture Can Solve Global Tax Evasion
Every year, an estimated $480 billion in tax revenue vanishes into thin air—funnelled through a labyrinth of shell companies, hidden bank accounts, and anonymous trusts. In 2016, the world watched in awe as the Panama Papers leaked 11.5 million financial documents, exposing the secretive offshore holdings of world leaders, billionaires, and celebrities. But while investigative journalists rely on luck and whistleblowers to expose these scandals, data architect Martyn Rhisiart Jones offers a permanent solution in his book, Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology.
Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology is a book by enterprise data architect and consultant Martyn Richard Jones.
Pip: Hidden fortunes, opaque shell companies, and the quiet question of why governments with access to the most powerful data tools in history still can’t … or won’t… track where the money goes. That’s the territory Martyn Jones has been mapping.
Mara: This episode follows his work on tax evasion, financial transparency, and the case that this is fundamentally a data problem… and that the tools to solve it already exist. Let’s start with the book at the centre of it all.
Book Review: Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology by Martyn Jones
In an age defined by algorithms, trillion-dollar tech companies, and data flowing across borders at the speed of light, one of the oldest problems in civilisation persists: how the wealthy avoid paying their share of tax. In Revealing Wealth, Martyn Jones argues that the real scandal is not simply that tax evasion exists, but that in a data-rich world we still allow it to thrive.