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New Normal, Radical Shift: Publication date and first reviews
Gower Publishing has announced that 28 March will be the UK launch date for New Normal, Radical Shift, by Neela Bettridge and Philip Whiteley, while the US launch will take place on 28 April. The...
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Bad metaphors and useless data
Look around at the busy world of international trade, and there is plenty of activity and thriving businesses, writes Philip Whiteley. Yet the news media, at least in the west, are filled with tales of...
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Gearing up for Radical launch
The launch date of New Normal, Radical Shift, earlier slated for late March, has been confirmed as 28 April in both the UK and the USA, publisher Gower has confirmed. The Amazon page is now live, and...
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Left-right politics keeps wages down
One of the biggest misconceptions in management and politics is the idea that careers, good earnings and self-esteem only matter to high-flying graduates and the ambitious upper-middle class, writes...
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Facing up to the big stuff
We have to admit that New Normal Radical Shift is not a humble book, writes Philip Whiteley: this blog is based on his address to participants at the London breakfast briefing on 16 May 2013. It is...
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The potential of humans
Last night I gave an address to a meeting organized by Human Potential Accounting, writes Philip Whiteley. It was held to promote the fourth edition of the Human Capital Handbook, and I was pleased...
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Foodbanks, Big Data and a refusal to learn
Three articles this week, mostly depressing but with a glimmer of hope in one, offer a vivid portrayal of our technologically rich, economically unequal, debt-ridden, politically anachronistic and...
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Book of the Month …
The Strategic Management Bureau has named New Normal, Radical Shift as its Book of the Month for June, and posted a guest blog by Philip Whiteley on its home page, and on the Linked-in group, which has...
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Philip’s talk at launch of Human Capital Handbook
Philip was an invited speaker at the London meeting on 23rd May, organized by Human Potential Accounting, to mark the launch of the Human Capital Handbook, to which he and Neela contributed a chapter....
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More coverage for Radical Shift
The latest issue of Coaching at Work, the professional magazine for executive coaches, includes a feature by Philip and Neela. They argue that leading individuals in learning and development should...
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A better ideology can improve wages
One of the problems with management – and economics and politics, for that matter – is the common idea that beliefs and ideology don’t matter. We can just be pragmatic people, getting the best deal, it...
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Radical shift helps flexi-working
The following is an excerpt from an article in flexibleboss by Philip Whiteley: Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo!, caused controversy in February this year by curbing home-working. She cited...
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Why does the Left promote poverty pay?
With the rise of zero-hours contracts, and campaigns for a living wage, it is distressing that so many wages are low, but heartening that living standards are at least becoming a political issue,...
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Management Futures with the CMI
At New Normal, Radical Shift, we are delighted to have been involved in advising the Chartered Management Institute as they prepare a series of blogs and other initiatives around the theme of the...
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A narrative of hope
It’s questionable whether the ritualized debates over global warming, typified by reaction to last week’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are serving a useful purpose any...
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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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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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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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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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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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