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Author Archives: Paul Kearns
The Maturity Institute’s Professional, Scientific, Test of Management Quality
The Maturity Institute (MI) was established to help professionalise management; to become akin to what the UK’s General Medical Council is to professional medicine. Both institutions have had to work very hard to protect our professionally-trained, practitioners from imitation. This … Continue reading
OMINDEX® Workforce: Connecting Purpose, Values and Performance
Our new diagnostic assesses employee experiences of organizational maturity, social responsibility and stakeholder value The Maturity Institute has been helping organisations to score and rate maturity levels (marrying social responsibility and performance) since we made OMINDEX® our global diagnostic standard … Continue reading
The Myth of ‘Non-Financial Reporting’
I was sent details today of a 517 page ‘Final Report’ from the European Union on ‘non-financial reporting’. I have seen many references to this term over the last 10 years or so but I have never seen a clear … Continue reading
ESG Stories: Nestlé’s inauthentic ESG scores an own goal
Here at the Maturity Institute (MI) we have been liaising with Nestlé for some years now, since we wrote our seminal report on their first OMINDEX® rating in 2015. More recently, we have been corresponding with CEO Mark Schneider and … Continue reading
Simplifying ESG – ‘S’ is for Global, Social and Corporate Reorganization
It is inevitable that ESG will lead to a new, global system of value management, in time. This new management system is dependent on the right approach and measurement system for the ‘S’. Oxford English Dictionary definition: ‘Social’ – adjective. … Continue reading
What Are The Critical Questions To Ask Every Prospective Board Member?
Andrew Hill’s recent management challenge at the Financial Times ‘Business School’ was to identify the ideal question to ask to a former CEO seeking a board position We thought the FT’s boardroom selection challenge was particularly interesting. With the emergence … Continue reading
Company legislation should mandate a Global, ESG Management System for Total Stakeholder Value
The Maturity Institute’s OMINDEX® provides a practical solution to the most wicked management problem facing the world Presumably, the purpose of company law is to ensure that companies behave responsibly? In UK company law, Section 172 of the Companies Act … Continue reading
Business school education – behind the ESG curve?
The Financial Times has been grappling with questions of corporate responsibility for some time now and the advent of ESG investing has forced it to produce its own version of what “Responsible Business Education” should look like. Here are a … Continue reading
To be or not to be – that is the ESG question
ESG: three simple letters that can stand for total confusion unless it is fully understood by the board. It is not about compliance per se, although some boards may choose to view it that way. It is about three core … Continue reading
MI Exec Ed: OMINDEX® Standard for ESG Management
The Maturity Institute is very pleased to announce our new Exec Ed. ‘MBA’ curriculum for taking managers to the next level of maturity and professionalism that is a necessary qualification for the fulfilment of an ever-expanding range of ESG (environmental, … Continue reading