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Humans in the Boardroom #7 The UK Government is consulting on modernising corporate reporting, including simplifying the statutory requirements for board remuneration disclosures. Remuneration reports
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
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.
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,
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
Risk and strategy go hand-in hand, but too often companies don’t think enough about risk. In this episode of Boardroom Confidential by Sherpany I discuss
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,
If there’s one topic that is almost guaranteed to quieten a board meeting, it’s when the CFO starts proposing that the company takes out a
I travelled from Tashkent to Moscow on an Aeroflot Ilyushin 86 in the early 1980s. The seats were basic metal framed deckchairs, screwed to the
The collapse of Carillion was a tragedy, especially for its 45,000 employees and 25,000 pensioners. In an earlier article, I looked at its last Annual Report