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A. Your first NED interview
I’ve sat through many NED interviews, on both sides of the table, learning a lot about how they work and how to conduct them. I have not yet discovered the secret to identifying the ideal NED director nor to getting selected myself every time. Here are a few notes,...
Your first 100 days as an NED
Induction Programme You should have some form of induction programme. However, rather than leave it to the Company Secretary, it will be a better and more comprehensive one if you take control of it. Unless you’ve already met them in your induction programme, you...
‘Not missiles, but microbes’ – Why didn’t we see it coming?
Famously, in 2008, the Queen asked economists why no-one saw the great financial crisis coming, not least as they were giving her a full retrospective inquest into why it happened1. She might well ask the same question again now about the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course,...
Brydon’s curate’s egg
Right Reverend Host: “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad Egg, Mr Jones!” The Curate: “Oh no, my Lord, I assure you! Parts of it are excellent!” A ‘curate’s egg’ was originally something that is described as having good parts purely out of politeness, but nowadays, is...