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Before Being Born Until the Day We Die, We Depend on Systems
Before Being Born Until the Day We Die, We Depend on Systems
Even before we are born our lives depend on systems. And from the day we are born until the day we die we depend on them.
Paul Barnett
Nov 18, 2020
Our Leaders Need To Be Mavericks: Unorthodox Thinkers Familiar With Protean Power And How To Use It.
Our Leaders Need To Be Mavericks: Unorthodox Thinkers Familiar With...
Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain World and Unexpected in World Politics is part of a series of books published by Cambridge…
Paul Barnett
Sep 29, 2020
We have a fundamentally flawed model of capitalism perpetuated by extremely bad proxies that were…
We have a fundamentally flawed model of capitalism perpetuated by e...
In 1997 Marilyn Strathern, an anthropologist, restated what has been called Goodhart’s law with the adage, “When a measure becomes a…
Paul Barnett
Sep 28, 2020
Smart People Are A Dime a Dozen. What Counts Is Having A Builder’s Mentality.
Smart People Are A Dime a Dozen. What Counts Is Having A Builder’s ...
On September 2nd in “Smart People Are A Dime A Dozen. What Counts Is Being Creative And Imaginative”, I said I had started reading Invent…
Paul Barnett
Sep 27, 2020
Corporations Don’t Represent Our Ultimate interest as their owners, their employees and customers.”
Corporations Don’t Represent Our Ultimate interest as their owners,...
This is part one of a two-part review of Accountable: How We Can Save Capitalism by Michael O’Leary & Warren Valdmanis (Penguin Business…
Paul Barnett
Sep 24, 2020
How Do We Create A New System of Value?
How Do We Create A New System of Value?
Just published is the latest Blueprint from r3.0 an organisation that “promotes Redesign for Resilience and Regeneration.” As “a global…
Paul Barnett
Sep 10, 2020
The Imperative of Diversity — Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom: Part 2
The Imperative of Diversity — Collective Blindness to Collective Wi...
This is the second a two-part review (part one) of Matthew Syed’s book Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking. It was first published…
Paul Barnett
Sep 8, 2020
Smart People Are a Dime a Dozen. What Counts is Being Creative and Imaginative
Smart People Are a Dime a Dozen. What Counts is Being Creative and ...
The collective writings of Jeff Bezos, with a foreword by Walter Isaacson, will be published on 17th November this year by Harvard…
Paul Barnett
Sep 2, 2020
The Imperative of Diversity: Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom
The Imperative of Diversity: Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom
This is the first part of a two-part review of Matthew Syed’s book Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking. It was first published in…
Paul Barnett
Aug 31, 2020
Beyond the Precipice With a 21st Century Theory of Moral Sentiments
Beyond the Precipice With a 21st Century Theory of Moral Sentiments
In his latest book The Ages of Globalization (which I will get around to reading and reviewing as soon as I can) Jeffrey Sachs argues that…
Paul Barnett
Aug 27, 2020
Enterprise can, and should, deliver fair returns to all stakeholders, including society, whilst…
Enterprise can, and should, deliver fair returns to all stakeholder...
A recent article by Robert Armstrong, the US Finance Editor of the Financial Times, is titled, “The dubious appeal of ESG investing is for…
Paul Barnett
Aug 25, 2020
Stakeholderism should not be supported, even by those who deeply care about stakeholders
Stakeholderism should not be supported, even by those who deeply ca...
In a new research report, “For Whom Corporate Leaders Bargain”, published this month two directors and a researcher at the Program on…
Paul Barnett
Aug 24, 2020
CFOs Deserting Sinking Ships
CFOs Deserting Sinking Ships
Today I received an eNewsletter from Korn Ferry . One article in it caught my eye, “The Sudden Departure of CFOs”.
Paul Barnett
Aug 20, 2020
DEFINING ENLIGHTENED, ENTERPRISE & ACADEMY
DEFINING ENLIGHTENED, ENTERPRISE & ACADEMY
As I begin the launch of the Enlightened Enterprise Academy, I think it is necessary to explain what I mean by the words: enlightened…
Paul Barnett
Aug 17, 2020
How best to protect vital societal interests without stifling innovation
How best to protect vital societal interests without stifling innov...
In concluding his review of three new books on innovation, John Thornhill, the Financial Times Innovation Editor, says “one of the most…
Paul Barnett
Aug 15, 2020
When More Is Not Better: Book Review Part Two
When More Is Not Better: Book Review Part Two
This is the second part of my two-part review of the new book by Roger L Martin, “When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession…
Paul Barnett
Aug 11, 2020
Value Extraction: Sucking the Life Blood Out of the Economy
Value Extraction: Sucking the Life Blood Out of the Economy
I recently published a short article based on my surprise that the period of a decade S&P500 companies paid out 93% of their profits to…
Paul Barnett
Aug 5, 2020
When More Is Not Better: Book Review Part One
When More Is Not Better: Book Review Part One
When More is Not Better, the new book by Roger L. Martin, will be published on September 29th by Harvard Business Review Press (Pre-order)…
Paul Barnett
Aug 4, 2020
DIGNITY: A MEANS TO AN END AND AN END IN ITSELF, OR AN EMPTY CONCEPT?
DIGNITY: A MEANS TO AN END AND AN END IN ITSELF, OR AN EMPTY CONCEPT?
The recent webinar we ran, ‘A Matter of Power and Dignity: Resolving Conflict and Discrimination’ began with a provocation by Donna Hicks…
Paul Barnett
Jul 26, 2020
Treating People With Dignity And Respect Makes a Decent Man.”
Treating People With Dignity And Respect Makes a Decent Man.”
Earlier this week I hosted a webinar “A Matter of Power & Dignity: Resolving Conflict & Discrimination”.
Paul Barnett
Jul 25, 2020
Philosophy in Management Study Tour to Greece
Philosophy in Management Study Tour to Greece
It has long been my firm belief that ancient philosophy has much to teach us. Had we not ignored it, we might have avoided many problems.
Paul Barnett
Jul 19, 2020
EVENT UPDATE: “A Matter of Power & Dignity: Resolving Conflict & Discrimination”
EVENT UPDATE: “A Matter of Power & Dignity: Resolving Conflict & Di...
It is with great pleasure that I am able to say more than 200 people have already registered to attend the free online event “A Matter of…
Paul Barnett
Jul 15, 2020
THINKING ABOUT THINKING & NEURODIVERSITY
THINKING ABOUT THINKING & NEURODIVERSITY
Back in October 2019 I organised a number of events in London at which Bryce Hoffman spoke about Red Team Teaming and Red Team Thinking…
Paul Barnett
Jul 14, 2020
A Matter of Power & Dignity: Resolving Discrimination & Conflict
A Matter of Power & Dignity: Resolving Discrimination & Conflict
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Paul Barnett
Jul 6, 2020
Valueism and Social Contract Accounting Get the “Thumbs-Up”
Valueism and Social Contract Accounting Get the “Thumbs-Up”
On March 28th 2019 I wrote an article “Introducing Valueism and Social Contract Accounting” for The London School of Economic Business…
Paul Barnett
Jun 23, 2020
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