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What is corporate responsibility and how can I identify it?
What is corporate responsibility? Try answering this question and you enter an Alice-through-the-Looking-Glass world where nothing is...
Oct 23, 20234 min read
Long term decisions for a brighter future? Yes Prime Minister, here are 12 suggestions to start with.
Standing at a lectern embellished with the words ‘LONG-TERM DECISIONS FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE’ our Prime Minister announced, without...
Sep 25, 20234 min read
Everything is collapsing and we aren’t learning any lessons. Time for business to speak up.
The front cover of the most recent edition of Private Eye has an infant school pupil saying to the Prime Minister ’Everything is...
Sep 13, 20234 min read
Are you connected with the soul of your company?
I landed in Barcelona at around 10.30 in the morning. Half an hour later the ground under my feet suddenly seemed uneven. Why such a...
Jul 23, 20234 min read
Discovering and nurturing tomorrow’s wealth creators
A virtual garden. A clothing company for pets. A smart toothbrush that monitors your oral health as you use it. A multi-purpose bedside...
Jul 10, 20234 min read
Asylum – is business playing its part?
The tragedy of lives lost in Greece reminds us more than ever of the need to find safe routes for migration. This is a problem that all...
Jun 26, 20234 min read
Memo to the chair: unhappy about ticking those ESG boxes? Then lead from the front
I experienced a nasty discordant sound last month on hearing two pieces of news. First I learned from some of the world’s leading...
Jun 19, 20234 min read
Set up a shadow board by all means, but when will you get serious about intergenerational fairness?
‘It's clear that while capitalism has a huge amount to offer in terms of wealth creation and encouraging free enterprise, it has still...
Apr 25, 20234 min read
Migration – the fairness test to come
I listened recently to a fascinating BBC radio programme about housing in Vienna. There was so much to admire. Housing designed for...
Apr 17, 20234 min read
We need to talk about Purpose – but also about values!
The UK needs better, stronger companies. Companies which, while being commercial and competitive, dedicate themselves to serving human...
Mar 28, 20233 min read
Thinking like an owner – a precious byproduct of capitalism
Last week BBC Radio 4 hosted a discussion about capitalism between three authors - the Financial Times’ Martin Wolf, US Senator Bernie...
Mar 8, 20234 min read
From Jack Welch to Paul Polman — what a change in just 15 years!
Trials of a 4-day working week have been a success, according to recent reports in The Guardian. 18 of the 61 participating companies...
Feb 27, 20234 min read
Feb 6, 20230 min read
Nadhim and Ram – two tales about fairness
My Silk Road The Adventures and Struggles of a British Asian Refugee Pippa Ramm Books 2022
Jan 30, 20231 min read
Which company do you most admire?
‘Which company do you most admire?’ I like to ask this question if I am at a dinner party and the conversation has slowed. Some people...
Jan 16, 20234 min read
Labour and the 21st Century Economy – a 12 point plan for building better capitalism
When I was 11 years old my grandmother gave me a book token for Christmas and I spent it on two paperback biographies. One was about the...
Jan 9, 20234 min read
What does respect for employees mean in the age of the algorithm?
'There’s an algorithm here, tracking a human worker. Do you not see this as a problem?’ Darren Jones, MP, chair of the Employment Select...
Nov 27, 20225 min read
What if the chancellor were an anthropist?
The 2025 Autumn Statement - a Naïve Proposal Madam Speaker Today I wish to present the House with an entirely new kind of Autumn...
Nov 18, 20223 min read
One day of Anthropy
‘A great garden is a symphony’ Thus spoke Tim Smit yesterday as – for the first time – The Eden Project closed its doors to allow the...
Nov 7, 20223 min read
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