Politics in Britain today is failing to recognise the need for a radical updating of capitalism. At the heart of this is a need for a new macroeconomics with people and planet not wealth and growth as its focus. Wellbeing economics is a fast moving and game-changing subject, it is at the vanguard of debate...
Following on from my previous blog a number of people have asked me what a flourishing enterprise might look like in practice, how they would incorporate change into their business and get shareholder backing. In this blog I will try to answer those questions. Within the flourishing enterprise model of strategic change there are three key...
By the time I had returned to the office on Friday from speaking at the #Polis11 conference at LSE (curator: @CharlieBeckett), a colleague had already received an excited e-mail from a local politician asking for a transcript of my five minutes on An Informed Society? Apparently, I was ‘making waves’ – though the broad themes...
A group of the UK’s leading economist have just written to the Chancellor saying his Plan A needs a Plan B. These wise men and women feel that the only problem with finding a return to growth is in the details of a ‘growth strategy’. Sadly these ‘wise’ people are as wrong as Osborne in...
When I run sessions with business executives on growth, wellbeing, and innovation, I say that people don’t have to buy my analysis of the problem to buy my ideas on the solution. That’s because I think we are now living in an era of “uneconomic growth” and we therefore have no choice but to redefine...
I am often asked how I can ‘justify’ my (senior) position within one of the world’s largest Public Relations firms, with my impassioned views on citizenship and society. I have long held the belief not only that it is a crass falsehood to see PR as a perpetrator of evil but also that the communications...
The following is an extract from a talk given on Saturday 5 March in Portmeirion, Wales, at Names Not Numbers – billed as ‘a very British Davos’. The theme of the 2011 gathering was Community and Values. The most consequential outcome of the global financial crisis is now the challenge to capitalism itself.
I really like the idea of Millennium Consumption Goals. Instead of fixating on what needs to happen in the developing world through the (failing) Millennium Development Goals, what about us in the rich world fessing up to our role in inequality and over-use?
The publication of two significant works within the past fortnight signposts a welcome shift in conversation about New Economics and ‘new’ business models in the wake of the great crises of our time.
