Let’s look at the role business ought to play in society

The current crisis of confidence in the business world demonstrates not only a problem with the financial underpinning of economies – the ghosts of money that have been propping up growth – but also, at a deeper level, the limitations of our ideas about how business should be managed.

What’s needed from people in organisations is the ability to take a more holistic view of what the organisation is and how it should be run.
 

It’s untenable to have a normal retirement age in public-sector schemes that is significantly different from the state retirement age

Brian Bailey, Director of pensions, West Midlands Pension Fund and member of High Pay Commission