Challenging the theory of disengagement
Over the past few years, evidence has accumulated that enlightened leadership creating highly engaged employees is good for business. Companies that pride themselves on engagement tend also to be...
View ArticleWater, water, anywhere
Is water the emerging big issue? It certainly should be, writes Jane-Fiona Cumming. Currently 25% of the world’s population is living in an area of water stress. The combined effects of population...
View ArticleTo sustainability ‘at lightning speed’
Guest post by Monika Mitchell: Making money while making the world a better place is the mandate for 21st century business. While there are plenty of companies behind the curve who earn billions the...
View ArticleUnilever invests in sustainability
The consumer products company Unilever has announced more programmes as it moves towards being a more sustainable business. It has published details of a range of research projects in the areas of...
View ArticleRadical risks
The rise of the Tea Party in the USA and some previously fringe parties in Europe is an inevitable by-product of mistakes in the policies of deregulated finance and the European single currency. The...
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A warning about pay
There has been much talk of inequality of pay in recent years. Given how much it has grown, it’s extraordinary that it hasn’t led to more widespread social discontent. One reason, however, may be that...
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People don’t hate change
A new post on Philip’s blog highlights one of the more cynical, and questionable, assumptions about organizational change: that people ‘hate’ change, and that a tiny elite of planners therefore has to...
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A robotic prediction
Every ten years or so, a futures-technology guru predicts the inevitable phasing out of the ordinary employee, to be replaced by machines. In 1982, it was ‘IT Year’ in the UK. The first cars had been...
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Living wage debate misses the point
In the UK, an appearance of ‘growth’ is returning – the inverted commas are necessary because, as this column has reported before, a change to Gross Domestic Product is not a reliable indicator of...
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Thoughtful reflections
Soren Andersson is a thoughtful environmentalist (hopefully, one day it will be the people not caring about sustainability who are the minority and will need a special term), who blogs at...
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Big Data should serve people
There is much hype around ‘Big Data’ and ‘the Internet of Things’ currently in business and management circles. Quite right too: as this blog by the Chartered Management Institute demonstrates,...
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The pace of change is too slow
A common observation at business conferences is that the pace of change is dizzyingly fast. There is an alternative view: that it is agonizingly slow. To be more specific: while innovation in...
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Time to get enlightened
Politicians get a tough time in New Normal, Radical Shift. We argue that the left-right turf wars – for example over how big the state is – are less important than such matters as sustainability,...
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A growth measure that is really Gross
In tweets, blogs and in our book New Normal Radical Shift, we make the case that a change in Gross Domestic Product does not measure growth: it does not take debt bubbles into account, records much...
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More on the failures of extreme inequality
The Strategic Management Forum and the New York Times have published analysis that reveals breathtaking enrichment of a tiny number of executives despite a poor return for shareholders. The article...
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A gaping hole at the heart of economics
In the UK, the opposition leader Ed Miliband has caused a stir by promising controls on energy prices for households; with much support but also criticism that there are insufficient proposals to...
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Selective outrage in a partisan world
This month the Chartered Management Institute asks why management is still so neglected, with just one in five actually qualified as a manager, and 43% rated ‘poor’. It’s symptomatic of a wider...
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We are what we believe
It’s often assumed that busy executives are too busy to worry about beliefs or philosophy – but in the real world our beliefs, or unwritten ‘scripts’ about how the world is, will affect priorities and...
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A world run by bean-counters
Weak skills hamper the growth of businesses; more evidence accumulates as to the economic impact of strong management. Yet still, in the strange world of politics and formal economics, people...
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People don’t just matter ‘sometimes’
The quest for employee engagement often struggles to be on the corporate or political agenda. It sounds ‘soft’ both from a finance-based business perspective, and to trade unionists who emphasize legal...
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