Look at any well-run private or family business. You find a close alignment between the owners of its shares and the board and the senior people running the business.

 

There are vigorous conversations going on in which the owners challenge the managers about past decisions and future directions.

 

Views differ, but there is a shared commitment to the long term success of enterprise. In these companies accountability works and so do incentives...

Friends,

I had the privilege today of getting a private briefing from a leading investment analyst on the impact of the new US Climate Change Bill.

Below are 11 key points:

1. The Bill has been watered down so much that US industry is unlikely to be doing any real emission cuts until the mid-20s.

Personneltoday.com has just begun a five week series of interviews exploring Tomorrow's Global Talent - starting with an interview with me, before it gets really interesting with a series of interviews with Gary Browning of Penna Consulting, Ken Rowe of YSC, Tanja Kuveljic of B-Live, and Caroline Waters of BT.
 
When we set of with Heidrick and Struggles, together with BT, Career Innovation and the Talent & Enterprise Taskforce, to explore 'how leading global companies will create value through people' we had some idea of what we were about to unleash, but now that the genie is out of the bottle, and that the 'Tomorrow's Global Talent conversation' has begun, it is interesting to connect this conversation to others