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Read the book, do the course!”Notes From A Non-Executive
Topics covered range from what to look at when you are thinking of joining a board, to handling difficult issues that arise, to what to expect if your company gets bid for.
Risks & The Boardroom
This is a plea for boards to take corporate risk registers seriously and suggests ways to enable boards to think about risks in a constructive way.
Corporate Governance
A blog on recent corporate governance changes, lesson that can be learned from failures such as Carillion and Northern Rock, and issues around the audit industry.
Economics
Articles looking at various aspects of economics
Recent Blogs
Interview with Sir Ken Olisa on corporate governance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9SPeJOdQnI
Is Tesco going green by being mean?
Tesco has proudly announced that it is the first UK retailer to offer sustainability-linked supply chain finance. That sounds great, well done Tesco! But wait a moment. What does this really mean? Supply chain finance is used when a company takes so long to pay its...
Scott Colvin on business lobbying, interview
https://youtu.be/yEAbWFW7N0A
Who pays for low interest rates?
So the Bank of England has cut interest rates again, to 0.25%, as ‘the outlook for growth in the short to medium term has weakened markedly’. It is also pumping £70bn new money into the financial sector, that is ‘monetary easing’ or ‘printing money’. Meanwhile,...