The Financial Times rates John Authers’ journalism as ‘premium subscription’ quality, so it was a rare and welcome opportunity to see his ‘Opinion – Market Insights‘ piece aired in the mainstream edition yesterday (31st May). This should reach as wide an audience as possible because it has very serious implications for the future of market […]
Since the Maturity Institute’s (MI) inception in 2012 we have been blazing an evidence-based trail: taking progressive human governance and human capital management into the worlds of finance and investment with OMINDEX. We also set the highest global standards, based on the ultimate measure of Total Stakeholder Value (TSV). Yet our roots remain in our […]
Ten years after the crash of 2008, banks today might be more solvent but we still cannot trust them. Their underlying culture, where profit conflicts with societal value, has not changed. They persist in trying to justify their profit-driven behaviour with a wilful misinterpretation of the words of a Nobel prize winning economist from nearly […]
One role of the Maturity Institute is to provide a wide-ranging critique of existing human governance and human capital management practice, based on its global standards, in order to develop professional solutions to meet emerging needs. A looming, global challenge for pension funds is to ensure they can keep providing pensions for ageing populations. The best […]
In a former life, as an executive career counsellor, I helped world-weary executives get back on their feet; having been jettisoned by their previous employer. The easiest and quickest ‘pick-me-up’ I could offer was to help them produce a CV that brought their main selling points to the fore. When I asked them what they […]
After a long absence, I was recently lured back into reading one of the popular HR trade magazines on the basis that it urged readers to learn from a particular firm’s prizewinning HR team. Under the heading “What you can learn from RSA: The happy couple.” People Management revealed what it takes to “scoop the […]
Anyone who has worked in HR for more than twenty years or so will have become used to seeing regular surveys of executives expressing their views on HR. Two recent surveys that fall into this category are from the Economist Intelligence Unit and, not surprisingly, the CIPD but why are they produced at all? I […]