I had to laugh. A letter was published in the Independent newspaper on the subject of the lack of women at board level in companies. Here’s an extract: ‘…I suspect that there might just not be the numbers and, at times, the talent available within the female pool …To be a successful business person you […]
It is bankers’ bonus season again in the UK. £7bn is expected to be paid out to our senior bankers – not bad at all, at a time when the economy is suffering and businesses and government departments across the land are cutting costs and jobs. The funny thing is that the bankers genuinely seem […]
“Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes them so”. William Shakespeare, Macbeth In his speech to the Labour party conference in October Ed Miliband proposed, in essence, that companies be labelled as “good” or “bad” and taxed and regulated accordingly. You can see where the thinking comes from – it is pretty much […]
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller The Working in Trust purpose is to take an already proven form of business organisation – Business Trust – and develop it into an effective organisational model that helps to align […]