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Life is a risk
Risk simply means that we are not sure about what will happen in the future. If you know everything about the future, you haven’t got any risk. However, if you are mortal like the rest of us you are constantly wrestling with what might, or might not happen, in the...

Non-executive directors beware! They may be coming for you.
At the very last minute the Insolvency Service, acting for the UK Government, has just abandoned disqualification proceedings against five former non-executive directors of Carillion, which collapsed in 2018. This is a massive relief, not just to those individuals,...

Do men take revenge for diversity quotas?
A new academic study (1) is challenging one of the central policies of gender diversity -boardroom quotas for women. They have been the central plank of the push for diversity in business, not just to promote more diversity in the boardroom, but also to encourage it...

Politician, heal thyself
A company with just £24m annual revenue goes bankrupt with £1.9 bn of debts and a further £0.6m financing commitments. It made two appallingly large and risky investments that, not surprisingly, went disastrously wrong. It should have made national headlines amid...