Under his long stewardship, Luxembourg became Europe's wealthiest country, one of the richest in the world in per capita terms, as well as a bastion of banking secrecy and a tax haven for multinationals keen to exploit the EU's single market while minimising their contributions to the European exchequer.
George Osborne's sunny economic forecast and much of his claim that Britain is a "comeback country" have more to do with higher than expected levels of net inward migration than his stewardship as chancellor or the falling oil price.
Nestlé chair Peter Brabeck talks to Jo Confino about the need to build water stewardship into core business strategy and how a sense of entitlement causes irresponsible use.
The Duke of Burgundy recorded a 26% increase in numbers compared to the previous year, similarly benefitting from areas of farmland under EU environmental stewardship schemes, as well as co-ordinated conservation management by charities including Butterfly Conservation, the National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts.
Under his stewardship, Tunisia remains the sole Arab spring country to have piloted a course towards democracy and security.
He did not have the confidence or the influence to push ideas through the general council because for the greater part of his stewardship, he could count on few powerful allies.
But Kaberuka stands by the progress the bank has made under his stewardship, and shrugs off the suggestion that he could have done more for Africa's poor.
In both these cases, ordinary people used technologies of connection to help them steer their own affairs, not merely managing complex domains to a minimal threshold of competence, but outperforming the official bodies formally entrusted with their stewardship.
Companies in the bottled water business might talk a lot about water stewardship and "gentle abstraction" but they are in effect looking to increase abstraction.
In a sombre address, hours after a dramatic meeting of euro group finance ministers in Brussels, Tsipras said that, while Athens under the stewardship of his radical left Syriza party had for the first time embarked on "real negotiations" with its creditors, a "long and difficult " struggle lay ahead.
They also do not view the natural environment as a commodity, but an inheritance that requires careful stewardship.
