Questions to Help Your Employees Find Their Inner Purpose - The pandemic has caused many people to evaluate things in their lives, their purpose being one of them. In this article, Kristi Hedges observes that managers can’t rely on organizational mission statements to inspire employees, but they can help...
We Are Nowhere Near Stakeholder Capitalism - By Vijay Govindarajan and Anup Srivastava - If you read the headlines coming from the 2020 World Economic Forum at Davos, you may start believing that public corporations have fundamentally changed their raison d’être: from creating value for shareholders to benefiting society-at-large. In our opinion, this...
The capitalists putting purpose ahead of profit
By Oliver Balch
As protest and environmental alarm escalate, a new breed of business is prioritising values other than money and growth
In a volatile world jolted by protest, revolt and environmental alarm, capitalism is showing signs of twitchiness.
Getting Uncomfortable on Purpose
Thinking about purpose in business was once a provocative and urgent activity. A seminal HBR article from 1994 states, “In most corporations today, people no longer know—or even care—what or why their companies are,” and argues that “strategies can engender strong, enduring emotional attachments only when they are...
Do You Think HR is Effective? - Dave Ulrich stresses the importance of relationships over roles in his assessment of how HR deals with its own internal challenges.
HR for HR means that HR professionals apply to their own function the knowledge and tools they apply to their organisations. This...