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B. How to choose your first NED role
I gave a nervous laugh. The headhunter had just suggested that I could start my non-executive career by joining Northern Rock. Why would I want to join the board of a bank suffering a run, the first British bank for over a hundred years to experience one? NED...
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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,...
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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...
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‘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,...