A speech given by Sir David Walker at the Tomorrow's Company lecture on 'Stewardship in practice: Renewing behaviours and changing cultures in the City' - this was given on 19th May at Gresham College, London.

See my article in HR Magazine on successful coaching in organisations. www.hrmagazine.co.uk/news/987955/success-coaching-depends-clear-objectives-rigorous-measurement/ . Is coaching becoming a panacea for leadership development? The UK's largest organisations such as the Insitute of Directors, the NHS and Disney, are among those promoting coaching programmes for their management teams. But are they missing a trick to get the best value for money?

National Conference -National HRD NetworkMumbaiNov 25, 2009 The following article is Anand Mahindra’s superb address given to the National HRD Network in Mumbai – a gathering of hundreds of the nation’s business and HR leaders.

Signs of a new era in economics emerge, bringing hope for real and systemic change. 

Global climate change has been our greatest market failure. Now it’s our greatest market opportunity.  Market mechanisms are enormously powerful tools to apply to such challenges as climate change. Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions worldwide will require a crash program to use energy more efficiently, and to use renewable energy sources.  Doing this can cut costs and drive competitiveness, spread the use of clean energy technologies that already are cost-competitive and available and develop next-generation technologies in virtually every sector of the economy.