Earlier this year, Ben Verwaayen, chief executive of French telecom company Alcatel-Lucent, championed the new concept of ‘cohesive capitalism’ . The idea that Verwaayen put forward is that we need a capitalism that really brings together various stakeholders rather than just focusing on the singular shareholder value. Verwaayen’s statement at the World Economic Forum seems to have been reasonably sympathetically received, but fundamentally nothing has come out of it, and I think that’s the critical point. The question is, can we have something called cohesive capitalism, which is basically shareholder value capitalism with more people cooperating? I think experience shows that the answer is no. [...]

Here are the slides from a presentation I gave at the 10th International Conference  on Corporate Governance in London on 10 October:

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Here are some photos from a book signing Andrew and I (and our co-author Linda Lee-Davies) did earlier this month for our book Leading for Success : [...]

Today an interview I did with Stuart Crainer was published in the Times of London–I do like the quote they chose to highlight: “I want to get the best out of people … my belief is that learning is sexy.” The piece is now online here ; click here to see a scan.
And if you can read Turkish, I also appeared in this month’s Turkishtime magazine. An excerpt is online here .