Why Human Capital Accounting is Becoming Imperative

You cannot continue to look upon your people as an expendable, easily replaceable cost. If you want your people to develop and “share their competence” you have to enable this. Treating and accounting for your employees as human capital is the vital first step. Are you ready to take it?

People as Assets – A Practical Proposition

The challenge Last week we looked at the statement “people are our greatest asset” and found that it was more than a cliché. The definition … Read more

How Management is Lobotomising Leadership

The divide between leadership and management is being perpetuated and exacerbated by our modern systems.
Increasingly sophisticated systems have accelerated business to the extent they have thrust decision-making ‘down-the-line’ and created what is popularly called distributed leadership or decision making. That is a good thing, but unfortunately, with their built-in and rigid controls to anticipate and cover every possibility, they have, paradoxically, also taken away the decision making capability from the people who operate them.

HR: The New Frontier

It’s been 10 years since I set out on a new career path with the mantra “HR is the new IT.” For me it was … Read more

Don’t be a blind follower!

The HR news this week has hardly been encouraging, and brings to mind rather forcibly the adage “If a blind man leads a blind man, … Read more