Politicians get a tough time in New Normal, Radical Shift. We argue that the left-right turf wars – for example over how big the state is – are less important than such matters as sustainability, governance, leadership and management. These subjects, the focus of our book, are neglected because they don’t fit into left-right doctrines, not because they are unimportant.
So we are delighted that some enlightened parliamentarians in the UK are working with the Chartered Management Institute to help renew leadership and management, and to illustrate their economic contribution. They have formed the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Management.
Even better, New Normal Radical Shift author Philip Whiteley has been appointed as editor-writer for the Commission, which will publish its report on the future of leadership and management for the UK economy in mid-2014.
For more on the Parliamentary Group, click this link.
Quote from New Normal, Radical Shift:
The accountancy scandals of the early 2000s, the failures of risk management in banking that gave rise to the credit crisis, the high rates of failure of Government projects and mergers & acquisitions, dangerous ecological degradation and volatile commodity prices, point to systemic failures and flawed thinking. This is changing, but only slowly. In our work we come across many examples of enlightened leadership, creating strong organisations that perform across a range of measures: financial, societal, and environmental. There has been impressive innovation in the past decade. Yet to achieve this, leaders often have work against the biases of the governance infrastructure in which they operate, and the attitudes that support them, in a febrile atmosphere of quarterly accounts, 24-hour news, and short tenure among many posts in commerce and government.
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