Another milestone has been achieved in MI’s mission to develop a new generation of mature managers with the final workshop on our Prague Programme. The programme was launched 12 months ago and jointly developed with MI’s Associate and Lead on Learning Impact, Stanislav Tichy. MI has not only gained talented, Affiliate members but has learned […]
“The big-four accountancy firm PwC is facing criticism over potential conflicts of interest after advising Britain’s top water watchdog at the same time as several water and sewage companies.” This story today in the Financial Times, about PwC’s conlicting roles in the UK water sector, can be seen as part of a very long-term trend […]
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 […]
Are the ‘big four’ accounting and auditing firms the right sort of advocates for Inclusive Capitalism? Do they possess the requisite knowledge and capability to carry out such an important task when their own reporting conventions have been part of the problem? The Maturity Institute presents its response to EY’s proposal for a new framework: […]
Banking Governance & Culture Report Series: Part 3 (of 10) Organizational maturity rating (OMR) provides a single measure of how well a company performs as a complete value system. A significant element in that whole picture is a collection of detailed, operational metrics. In banking, for example, a key metric of operational performance is cost/income […]
Have you ever been asked to take an oath? Did any business school act like a medical school and demand a Hippocratic allegiance before you graduated? Perhaps we just don’t take corporate leadership seriously enough? I have just taken an oath – the Banking & Finance Oath. This was a very personal choice and a […]
Does the world take the training of its human capital seriously? Estimates[i] suggest it spends $300 billion per year on a total population of 7,400,000,000.[ii] That works out at about 4 cents per head (maybe 8 cents per person of working age?). If that figure were doubled overnight would it signal that training is being […]
An extract from the latest HG Briefing – how much value could active fund managers add if they understood the value of human governance? Henderson/Janus merger begs the bigger question of maximising shareholder value? Business Wire (a Berkshire Hathaway company) has reported a possible “shareholder rights” challenge to this proposed merger to ensure Janus’ […]
The Maturity Institute’s purpose is “to increase both organization and societal value by educating and enabling organizations to move up to higher levels of leadership and management maturity”. The time for help in this area has never been more important; we are seeing continued scepticism around the capitalistic model of business with calls for change […]
As the saying goes “…we live in interesting times!” Stock markets are testing historic highs in the US supported by price to earnings ratios that are also becoming the highest on record[1]. Yet if one reads various financial articles[2] we can see that many businesses are sitting on “hoards of cash;” cash that is being […]