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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Paul Barnett
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…
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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…
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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…
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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”.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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”.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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A Matter of Power & Dignity: Resolving Discrimination & Conflict

A Matter of Power & Dignity: Resolving Discrimination & Conflict

CONFLICT RESOLUTION
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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…
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