Faith in Business is about workplaces. And what characterises most modern workplaces is their secularity, if only because diverse workforces rarely share the same religious belief systems. This immediately presents the Christian leader with a technical problem. Is it legitimate for them to appeal to an authority whose existence others doubt? Read More
As well as Chairing Faith in Business here at Ridley, I teach leadership at Ashridge Business School. Over the last 10 years or so I’ve been lucky enough to help quite a wide range of leaders work out how to get better at what they do. I’ve taught the Head of Clouds at the Met Office, the Head of Killing at Bernard Matthews, and the Administrator of Tristan da Cunha. Read More
This weekend I was lucky enough to open the Sustaining a Business Recovery conference at Ridley Hall in Cambridge. It was my first appearance as Dr Poole, so it was fitting that my talk was all about the Church and capitalism. Here are my 7 theses: Read More
I have just attended a most interesting consultation on ethical finance at St George’s House Windsor, co-run with Ridley Hall in Cambridge. One topic that came up in our discussions was about information. There was a feeling that the money to made from information asymmetries, coupled with concern over anti-competitive behaviour, made financial services as a sector reluctant to co-operate. This was seen to be a stumbling block to any co-operative attempt to agree self-regulatory regimes that would obviate the need for more potentially draconian regulatory intervention. This got me to musing – again – about Nash equilibria. Read More
