Description

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Corporate maturity is introduced as a new and valuable concept that provides a holistic view of an organization's performance, culture and resilience. This book presents a general model of corporate maturity, applicable to any sector and demonstrates how an organization can enhance its maturity, particularly through a focus on ethics, good governance and community outcomes. The author shows how mature organizations are those that find connections between corporate purpose and wider social needs. The authentic company, much in demand by investors, consumers, regulators, and employees, is one that can be trusted to deliver these needs as result of deeply embedded integrity, uncompromising unconditionality and outcomes rooted in sustainable communities.

About the Author

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David Jackman has been at the forefront of designing innovative financial services regulation and international sustainability standards. As head of ethics at the Financial Services Authority (FSA - now the FCA) he was the first senior regulator to focus on ethics, culture and corporate maturity. He was also primarily responsible for introducing competence standards for the UK financial services industry. Both systems are now adopted by many other jurisdictions. He co-founded a successful professional institute for market professionals and became the first chief executive of the industry-government Financial Services Skills Council. As chairman of the British Standards Institution (BSi) committee for sustainable communities, he is primary author of the groundbreaking UK national standards for sustainable development (including for the Olympics 2012) and sustainable communities. He is now co-authoring a parallel series of influential international standards - ISO 37101 and 37104 - for developing smart cities and resilient communities. David graduated from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, held a visiting professorship and was a visiting fellow of Cambridge University Judge Business School. David currently lectures, researches, consults, and campaigns internationally and his previous book, The Compliance Revolution (Wiley 2015) is a standard text. David holds a number of non-executive chairmanships and lives in the inspiring English Lake District.