Latest Maturity Tales

The Maturity Institute is excited and proud to announce that it has formed an alliance with OMS LLP and Redburn (Europe) Limited, a leading equity research firm, to take OMINDEX® into mainstream financial and equity analysis via “Redburn Purpose”. The … Continue reading →

Davos this year coincides with the 50th birthday of the World Economic Forum (WEF). So Gillian Tett, under the FT’s Moral Money series, chose this opportunity to ask its founder, Klaus Schwab, a list of fundamental questions about the relevance … Continue reading →

This is Part 7 in our BRT Series – see parts 1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6 It is a truism that management consultants can only be as good as the organizational context in which they work. This has been … Continue reading →

Part 6 in our continuing series on the implications of ‘BRT’– see parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Critical observers have been monitoring the seismic tremors underneath business education for many years. Now, the high salaries for MBA alumni are even more questionable, since … Continue reading →

Part 5 in our ‘BRT’ series – see parts 1, 2, 3, 4 In Part 3 of this series I explained some of the broader implications stemming from The Business Roundtable’s (BRT) ‘Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation’. Now … Continue reading →

“There is a climate change component to this…but there’s also a failure of management.” said Michael W. Wara, director, climate and energy policy program at Stanford University Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E Corporation) came to widespread prominence in the 1990s … Continue reading →

“It’s almost astonishing… (BRT are) in effect coming right out and saying, ‘We’ve been wrong for the last 20 years…some folks in the BRT are recognizing there’s something unsustainable about an economy that’s all about shareholder primacy.  … it’s probably … Continue reading →

Paul Kearns, Lucy Dunnett and Stuart Woollard were delighted to run a half day workshop for a delegation from China, led by the senior team from Anhui Provincial Investment Group Holding Co. Ltd. The workshop, entitled “How Purpose, Culture & … Continue reading →

Have US CEOs finally shaken off the Friedman doctrine they subscribed to for nearly 50 years? They have certainly taken a bold step to legitimately grant themselves permission to put societal value first. They must, however, determine a common purpose … Continue reading →

This is Part 1 in our BRT Series – see parts  2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Monday 19th August 2019 – mark it in your diary. It will forever be remembered as the day the world finally grew up, for the betterment of … Continue reading →