Current Affairs

What Is The Future of Work?

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With 3 in 10 jobs in the US held by the self-employed and their sub-contractors there is no doubt that the workplace is changing. (Source) … Read more

Addressing and Mastering “The Issue of Our Time”

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“It's happening. In the last three weeks alone, Foxconn announced it will replace 60,000 factory workers with robots, a former CEO of McDonald’s said given rising wages, … Read more

Meeting the Most Pressing Human Capital Needs

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What are executives’ major concerns these days? I was grateful to get a fresh insight recently when I obtained a copy of the Deloitte Global … Read more

Love at Work: A Practical Recipe

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“Work is love made visible.” What do those words of Kahlil Gibran’s say to you? I see them both as a constant source of inspiration … Read more

Good versus Bad Bosses – Why Retention is the Wrong Measure

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You might be surprised. I was. I had come to accept the idea that people quit their jobs primarily because of bad bosses. Yet, according … Read more

Transforming Human Resources

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You likely heard the news late last week that the Shell share price rose 7% in response to the news that the company was cutting … Read more

Why you, unwittingly, may be just going through the motions

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If you want to change this and turn things around to fully engage employees and optimise their effectiveness you have to find a way of changing the employee’s relation to their work. This essentially means that you have to create an environment where your employee is not working to “make someone else’s goals come true.” The only way you can do that is to create an environment of shared goals, where your goals and the employee’s correspond. That is the necessity. You have to ‘make your business their business’ – there simply is no other way to resolve this fundamental problem.

‘People’s Companies’ would make a moral difference

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We owe it to ourselves and future generations to get back on the right moral track. Employee ownership or ‘People’s Companies’ clearly offer a means to do this. So why not explore the ‘Every Individual Matters’ model as the way to deliver these?

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