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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

“A hotchpotch of pet ideas” – White Paper on audit & governance
Two successes from the pandemic have been the ‘Recovery’ treatment trials and new vaccines. Medical experts suggested possible options, tested each in blind trials, with the most successful treatments (such as dexamethasone) identified and rolled out globally, and...

Why we still get risk wrong
A ‘government source’ is quoted in the Times (25 May 2021), trying to defend the government against accusations that it failed to prepare adequately for the pandemic: “The reason we prepared for flu is because we have flu epidemics every year. The idea that you...

Sir Ken Olisa on inclusion, diversity, & competitive advantage
https://youtu.be/oNJetz62YMY

Interview with Sir Ken Olisa on corporate governance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9SPeJOdQnI