Philosophy in Management Study Tour to Greece
It has long been my firm belief that ancient philosophy has much to teach executives. Had we not ignored it, we might have avoided many...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
THINKING ABOUT THINKING & NEURODIVERSITY
Back in October 2019, I organised a number of events in London at which Bryce Hoffman spoke about Red Team Teaming and Red Team Thinking....
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
A Matter of Power & Dignity: Resolving Discrimination & Conflict
A wave of protests spread across the globe following the killing of George Floyd, suffocated by Police officer Derek Chauvin in...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
Valueism and Social Contract Accounting Get the “Thumbs-Up”
On March 28th 2019 I wrote an article “Introducing Valueism and Social Contract Accounting” for The London School of Economic Business...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
It is time to redesign traditional capitalism and put focus on values
The Daily Telegraph had a short opinion piece by Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever yesterday. The title of the article was in part, an...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
The Primacy Debate & False Dichotomies
This article is dedicated to the memory of Arie de Geus (1930–2019), whom I had the great pleasure of meeting a few times in his later...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
Designing the “New Normal”: Introducing the Enlightened Enterprise Movement
I have read several interesting articles that lead me to believe a new normal may be induced by the Covid-19 and the global economic...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Restoring Social Capital for a Brighter Post-Crisis Future
Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England, talks about “Reweaving the Social Fabric Post Crisis” in an article for the...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Valueism & 3 Inquiries
In her recent book, The Value of Everything, Mariana Mazzucato, attempts to “reinvigorate the debate about value” which, she argues, used...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
How Can Value Be Collectively Determined?
Mariana Mazzucato wrote the article, “Who Really Creates Value in an Economy?” for Project Syndicate. In it she rightly points out the...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
Prosperity, Sustainable Value Creation and the Social Contract
Two new publications, one from the World Economic Forum (WEF) published in January and one from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), just...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
From Values to Value: The Only Sustainable Business Model and the Foundation of Lasting Reputations
Recently I have been reading a lot about reputation. I was not surprised to learn that reputational risk is one of the top issues on the...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Value-Creation and Innovation
Innovation efforts often fail completely or disappoint. One senior executive involved in innovation for a very large corporation in the...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
If what gets measured gets managed, measuring the wrong thing matters!
Management guru Peter Drucker is credited with the phrase “‘what gets measured gets managed” — a truncated version of the full and much...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
We Need To Re-thinking ‘The Fundamental Bargain’ On Which Business Operates?
In a past article Four Ways to Save Capitalism, Build Strategic Muscle and Advance the Professional Practice of Strategy, I said, “time...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Valueism: the next evolution of capitalism and an all-embracing alternative to Neoliberalism
In a column Martin Wolf, the Financial Times chief economics commentator, discussed, “Why so little has changed since the financial...
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Paul Barnett
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
Beyond our current form of capitalism
Last year two fantastic articles in the Financial Times, one by John Plender, and FT Senior Editor and one by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson...
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