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Corporate Failure

Lessons from collapse, crisis and recovery.

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Board Effectiveness

Building high-performing boards that challenge, support and add value.

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Practical governance beyond compliance.

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Identifying and managing strategic risks.

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Economic trends and their impact on business.

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Why do capable boards sometimes make poor decisions? I recently spoke to Dr Sabine Dembkowski on the Better Boards podcast about the issues raised in my upcoming
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We’ve all done it. Things are going swimmingly, life feels good, you feel really sure of yourself, and then you forget to do something important.
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Humans in the Boardroom #5 I disliked Biology at school. It seemed to be all about remembering the names of bits of animals and plants, when
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Sarah Wynn-Williams' Careless People has become one of the year's most discussed business books. Although Meta strongly disputes many of her allegations, the book raises
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After every corporate scandal, we blame individuals and rewrite the rules. But what if we're fixing the wrong problem? In this short video I explain why my
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I play social tennis, mostly old-man doubles. It is friendly rather than fiercely competitive, though everyone still wants to win. As I’ve studied human factors,
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In the late 1980s, Polly Peck International was the City's "wonder stock". Analysts reportedly adorned the covers of their research reports with full-page portraits of
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Every major corporate scandal follows a familiar script. A company fails; lives are damaged, fortunes are lost, and the hunt for culprits begins. The media
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