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Chris Perry: “Great boards know their role.”
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Board effectiveness and writing culture: a match made in heaven
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How can joining a public sector board enhance your executive career?
Board & management papers
How to write an executive summary that gets your reader on your side
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Eamonn Hughes: “The story isn't just in the numbers.”
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Matt Truman: “If you want sustainable, industry-wide change, you need a systematic approach that builds a momentum of its own.”
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Susan Burton: “My only definition of failure is not trying.”
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Sally Johnson: “We can't just chase profits in a specific quarter.”
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Truett Tate: “There’s no room for ego in the boardroom.”
Board & management papers
How to create a great company dashboard
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Louise Smith: “Social media has the power today to bring down banks.”
Board & management papers
Board packs are getting worse. Here’s why and how to fix it.
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Stephen Oxley: “Integrate non-financial metrics into everything you do and sustainability becomes a natural part of decision-making."
Events
The role of female technology leaders
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4 ways corporate service providers can better meet their clients’ needs with a board portal
Board & management papers
How to turn critical thinking into a business superpower
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Connie Collingsworth: “The board shouldn’t have to read between the lines.”
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Martha Lane Fox: “You should support management right until the moment you shouldn’t.”
Corporate governance
The FCA’s s166 — Passing skilled person reviews takes more than skill
Events
What big questions are on the minds of business leaders for 2024?
Technology
New research reveals directors’ concerns about tech literacy in the boardroom
Board & management papers
The 3 communication habits your business needs, and how to make them stick
Technology
The definitive guide to AI for the board pack
Board & management papers
How the QDI Principle can help you write better board packs
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CEO
Two heads are better than one
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John Worth: “The best legacy that anyone can leave is to pass on your experiences and knowledge.”
Board & management papers
The three capabilities every business needs to move faster
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Aidan Connolly: “The CFO’s role is, by definition, a contradiction.”
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Board Intelligence co-CEOs publish “essential guide” for business leaders
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Carole Cran: “The CFO has an opportunity to act as a catalyst.”
Technology
AI and board reporting: is there a Board PackGPT in our future?
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Stuart Geddes: “ESG represents something of an opportunity whilst simultaneously presenting a real challenge.”
Board & management papers
A guide to creating effective board packs
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Dominic Barton: “Great meetings don’t just hinge on great people; they also need to be set up for success.”
Interview
Vic Holmes: “Senior management have to walk the talk.”
CEO
The definitive guide to the CEO’s report
CEO
How to write a great CEO report
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Introducing the “Collective Intelligence” book
Collective intelligence
What is collective intelligence and why does it matter?
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Dr Nnenna Osuji: “I must be prepared to walk away from my job in order for me to do it well.”
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Alison Dolan: “Look to yourself to embrace new things.”
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Louise Britnell: “Rampant short-termism is a real and credible danger to making progress.”
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Duncan Magrath: “Lead by example and by doing the right thing.”
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Brad Greve: “Businesses need talent, communities need fair representation, and everyone needs a chance.”
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Candida Davies: “We don’t just want to deliver on time, we want to be sure we did it in the right way.”
Board portal
How board portals keep your information secure from cyberthreats
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Rita Clifton CBE: “There are two things you can never say as a NED: ‘That was my idea’ and ‘I told you so.’”
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Tara Cemlyn-Jones: “Everyone in an organisation has a role to play in changing culture.”
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Arnaud Misset: “When people don’t understand something, it soon becomes easy not to care.”
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Victoria Penrice: “I realised it wasn’t good enough to be just ‘good enough.’”
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Sükrü Evrengün: “Making decisions quickly is absolutely crucial.”
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Proposed revisions to the UK Corporate Governance Code: what do directors need to know?
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How Waystone gained a day back of their working week with the Board Intelligence board portal
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Peter Burrows: “One of the greatest challenges is making sense of that data so you can communicate it.”
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Samir Pandiri: “The risk of being left behind should scare anyone.”
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Declan Hourican: “We can't fight fraud on our own, we need all stakeholders to help us tackle it.”
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Race equity - the latest developments and priorities for boards
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How to write a great finance report
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Suzanne Heywood: “The best leaders can be both resilient and humble.”
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Andy Morrow: “If you have a business that is anti-societal then that’s a problem.”
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Romaney O'Malley: “Ensure you’re getting an outcome that’s good for everyone, and not just your bottom line.”
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Clare Swindell: “Take a broad strategic view of your business beyond the typical CFO agenda.”
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Sarah Pollard: “It's not just a question of capturing data but it's knowing what your destination is.”
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Priya Guha MBE: “We’ve got the path to non-executive roles slightly wrong.”
Board portal
How to switch board portal in 4 simple steps
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Joe Moynihan: “The advent of greater automation and AI tools should drive better decision-making.”
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Kelly Devine: “Culture needs to continually evolve to meet the business needs of today, and prepare for the business needs of tomorrow.”
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Sharmila Nebhrajani OBE: “I think as much about the choreography of the discussion as about the paper.”
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Jeff Davies: “We’ve got clarity on what it looks like to be doing the right thing.”
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Fay Cooke: “The power to instigate change lies with corporates.”
Board portal
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How MPS revolutionised their board reporting with Board Intelligence
Case study
How TSB transformed their board papers with Board Intelligence
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Four things that make fund service providers switch to Board Intelligence
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Sarah Rapson: “We are taking the opportunity to bolster the Code where we feel the reporting is weaker.”
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Jill Shedden MBE: “Non-executives need to turn up as people, rather than their CVs.”
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Dervilla Mitchell CBE: “We need to overcome the inertia of ‘doing what we have always done.’”
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Kiersten Barnet: “When it comes to boosting social mobility, hiring is just the first step.”
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Jenny Hanlon: “I relish not being the CFO you would expect to meet.”
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Julia Woodhouse: “Exceptional leaders bring the human touch to the role.”
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Elizabeth Chambers: “It takes a great chair to ensure there is enough oxygen in the room.”
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Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne: “Keep things simple and fight against complexity creep.”
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Bruce Van Saun: “Anything other than a striving mindset will let you down.”
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Susanne Chishti: “It felt like the world was being changed right in front of us.”
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Kathryn Roberts: “It's a no-brainer to focus on the next generation.”
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Joel Ripley: “The perennial challenge is taking data to information, to insight, to action.”
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Sally Lake, CFO, Beazley PLC: “The scariest thing for CFOs today is also the most exciting thing — it’s change.”
Events
Governance Game Changers: how healthy governance steered the NHS through the pandemic
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Kerensa Jennings: “The great risk for board members is being left behind.”
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Silvana Bonello: “Knowing which questions to ask is more powerful than knowing everything.”
Events
Social mobility: The part of the Corporate Governance Code everyone’s forgotten about.
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Rachel Turk: “People like to say you should think outside the box; I think that what’s in the box is just as important.”
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Patrick Butcher: “Our superpower as a species is our ability to cooperate.”
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Stuart Jackson, CFO, Octopus Energy: “Let things go and see what flourishes.”
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Susie Timlin: “If you get the people bit right, the rest follows.”
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Heather Tierney-Moore OBE: “As a non-executive, your value is in asking great questions.”
Interview
Janice Ellig: “You cannot hire integrity. Great leaders have good character at their core.”
Interview
Zena Couppey: “Robust governance takes discipline”
Regulation & compliance
Financial crime — the next big thing
Regulation & compliance
Consumer Duty Act’s implementation — tick tock, time is running out
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George Magrath: “Connecting with patients keeps things in perspective.”
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Andy Boteler, CFO, Riverford: “Net zero is a chance to say yes.”
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Simon Collins: “Leaders of large organisations are like conductors of an orchestra.”
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Harriet Green: “Speed rather than elegance.”
Events
Setting your CoSec career up for success
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Eve Henrikson on organisational agility: “Learning what will drive you forward often necessitates learning what won’t.”
Interview
Julie Pomeroy: “Ask the naïve questions; it’s likely others are thinking the same thing.”
Interview
Christiana Figueres: “We live in a truly exciting moment in the history of our species, with a great capacity to improve the world around us for each other.”
Interview
Governance Game Changers: Spotlight on Muriel Thorne
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Saker Nusseibeh: “The market can’t solve problems without social cohesion.”
Interview
Interview with Adam Banks, NED & former CIO of Visa & AP Moller Maersk
Corporate governance
Board Intelligence and The IoD Inquiry: Governance and Innovation
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Andrew White: “To deliver any kind of transformation, you need to put people at the heart of the process.”
Corporate governance
Governance Game Changers: spotlight on Catherine Sukmonowski, company secretary at Deliveroo
Interview
Tim Ward on organisational agility: “Governance itself doesn’t do anything, but it allows people to be their best.”
Board effectiveness
What can a 1,400-year-old carpenter teach you about agility?
Interview
Bridget Rosewell: “Most CEOs tell me they have more experiences of boards that complicate things than of boards being effective.”
Corporate governance
How to kill your bureaucracy
Interview
Paul Polman: “Being ‘less bad’ isn’t good enough anymore.”
Interview
Simon Devonshire on organisational agility: “Right now, the biggest risk for corporates is the risk of being boring.”
Board & management papers
Communication: the hard truth about this soft skill
Interview
Serge Krancenblum on organisational agility: “The key isn’t asking ‘How do I make the right calls?’, it’s ‘How do I give others the right support for them to make the right calls?’”
Board effectiveness
Could Socrates have saved Kodak?
Regulation & compliance
The FCA’s Consumer Duty: Revolution, not evolution.
Interview
Clare Holt on organisational agility: “Your governance, too, should accelerate change.”
Corporate governance
Governance Game Changers: spotlight on Monica Pahwa
Interview
Fairer Future case study: Greg Turner-Smart
Interview
Graham Singleton: “For the regulator, board packs ballooning with compliance can be seen as a canary in the coal mine.”
Interview
Neil Hayward on organisational agility: “Innovation shouldn’t need to seek permission.”
Interview
Governance Game Changers: spotlight on Caroline Tolhurst
Events
What unexpected joy can be found from shorter board papers?
Interview
Orna NiChionna: “Boards remain the ultimate arbiter, but the frequency of their meetings has stopped being what determines how fast decisions can be made.”
Think Tank
Leading the Change: Rachel Youngman
Interview
The ExCo’s guide to shorter papers: Spotlight on Rachel Turk, Group Head of Strategy, Beazley
Interview
Gavin Hayes: “Nearly a quarter of boards do not even articulate the kind of culture they want.”
Interview
Michael Jary: “Chairs are rightly praised for developing collective purpose and building consensus, but if taken too far these inhibit challenge of the norms.”
Think Tank
Fairer Future Case Study: why TSB signed the Good Business Charter
Corporate governance
Governance Game Changers: spotlight on Silvana Glibota-Vigo
Interview
Ruth Handcock: “Having the discipline to talk about all stakeholders is not easy, but eventually it becomes second nature.”
Think Tank
Fairer Future Case Study: Marnie Millard
Think Tank
Leading the Change: Sir Ken Olisa
Think Tank
Leading the Change: David Bennett
Interview
Hanneke Smits: “You can’t react quickly enough if your modus operandi is just to escalate problems all the way to the board.”
Corporate governance
Governance Game Changers: spotlight on Shaun Coles
Events
Governance Game Changers: spotlight on our event panellists
Board effectiveness
Are your board papers slowing you down?
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Gavin Patterson: “As board information evolves, so will board members.”
Think Tank
Leading the Change: Baroness Patience Wheatcroft
Events
How to help the board buy into your vision - the CEO event series
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Danuta Gray: “One of the biggest changes has been the increased breadth of topics that must be discussed by the board.”
Case study
Case Study — Sykes Cottages
Interview
Vindi Banga: “People make or break your organisation, and they should be discussed every time you meet, not once a year.”
Think Tank
Leading the Change: Richard Burge
Interview
Ed Warner: “You need the right motivations to chair a sporting governing board”
Board & management papers
Want to impress the board with better papers? Try this.
Think Tank
Leading the Change: Sir Brendan Barber
Interview
Mark Winlow: “Nobody is nobody. How you interact with people is important.”
ESG
Fresh Voices: The Benefit of Foresight
Think Tank
Leading the Change: Stephen Welton
ExCo
How to give the board more confidence in your plans
Corporate governance
Governance Game Changers: spotlight on Deborah Gilshan
Board effectiveness
Use the ace up your sleeve for an agile 2022
Interview
Sir Jan du Plessis: “If anyone at board level still thinks it’s not their job to tackle the tough questions asked by society, they’re delusional.”
Case study
How JTC achieved 25% time-saving with the Board Intelligence portal
Think Tank
Fairer Future Case Study: Louise Parkes
Corporate governance
Governance Game Changers: spotlight on Miranda Craig
Think Tank
Leading the Change: David Dickson
Think Tank
Leading the Change: Lord Bob Kerslake
Think Tank
Leading the Change: Sarah Flannigan
Events
In conversation with Ian Stuart, CEO HSBC UK
Corporate governance
Governance Game Changers: spotlight on Chris Taylor
Interview
Susan Hooper: “If you’ve learned how to succeed in business, you’re capable of learning how to deal with this. So just get on with it.”
Opinion
We don’t need a CEO salary cap to solve inequality — We need this...
Events
Enabling growth - in conversation with Susanne Given, chair of Made.com
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Sir Michael Rake: “You have to be violently calm during a crisis.”
Interview
Conversation With Andrew Kakabadse, Governance & Leadership Professor
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David Roberts: “I want directors who bring their best self at board meetings; not just their smartest self.”
Interview
André Zerafa: “Disagreeing isn’t the same as challenging.”
Technology
5 signs that your board deserves better technology
Interview
Sir John Parker: “To effect change, the important thing is planting the flag.”
Interview
David Kelly: “A lot of businesses don’t know what their ESG north star is.”
Interview
Richard Meddings: “When you sign up to a board, you sign up for the challenges.”
Interview
Tom Ilube: “Diversity and inclusion aren’t issues to tackle and forget, they’re tools to hone so you can win.”
Interview
Sir Andrew Likierman: What independent judgment truly means for boards
Interview
Jane Hanson: “Each individual contribution may be good on its own, but put them all together and it becomes a great symphony.”
Interview
Matthew Westerman: “Good mentors know how to listen — and, just as importantly, to teach that skill.”
Interview
Sir Peter Gershon: “Beware the shadow you cast in a senior role.”
Interview
Terri Duhon: “In a ‘K-shaped’ recovery, you need to know which part of the ‘K’ you’re on and how you got there.”
Interview
Lynne Berry: “Reports have a natural tendency to hide the warts, and that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what the board does.”
Board & management papers
Is the Pen Still Mightier Than the Video Call? The Power of Good Business Writing
Interview
Tom Colraine: “The chances of black swans don’t disappear, they just jostle for attention in our minds and agendas.”
Interview
John Allan: “Resist the urge to rush through the agenda — especially when the solution looks obvious.”
Interview
Keith Skeoch: “As chair, you’re the person that has the last vote — but it’s a failure if you have to use it.”
Interview
Sir Anthony Habgood: “You need everyone to take board meetings seriously, and your board material should reflect these expectations.”
CEO
4 Tips for a Powerful CEO Board Report
ExCo
How to create a business dashboard to monitor the health of your business
Interview
William Harris: “Leaders who manage with compassion get better results, it’s scientifically documented.”
Interview
Manon Antoniazzi: “A good board meeting is one that charts a path.”
Interview
Improvements in the boardroom create a ripple effect felt far and wide
Interview
Lord Victor Adebowale: “When plans go flying out the window the way they did in 2020, all that’s left to guide you are your values.”
Interview
Mark Humphries: “I like to encourage board members to better understand the behaviours they bring into the boardroom.”
Interview
Wrapping up 2020
Corporate governance
How to embed stakeholders into your board’s decision-making
Corporate governance
Getting stakeholders in the board agenda — and keeping them there
Interview
Alison Munro: “It’d be a waste to simply go back to old habits.”
Interview
Angela Lockwood: “You can’t simply tell managers, ‘From Monday on, you’ll trust your staff more.’”
Interview
Paul Lester: “If you’ve been thinking of trying something new, this is the time to do it.”
Interview
Helen White: “Why are we here in the first place?”
Interview
Douglas van den Aardweg: “Boards shouldn’t be waiting for Government to tell us what to do.”
Interview
60 Second Interview With Justine Campbell
Events
In Conversation with Ben Mathews: Thriving in Times of Adversity
Opinion
An Argument for Compassion
Events
Offshore Governance, On Track for Change
Opinion
The virus putting boards under the microscope
Interview
Golden Rules From the Charity Boardroom
Product update
Introducing Agenda Planner
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Decision-Making and Boards
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Culture and Values: Meaningful or Meaningless?
Opinion
Board Members: Last-Chance Climate Saviours?
Opinion
Immune to Feedback? What NHS Governance Can Learn From Medicine
Opinion
Economic ADHD? The Board Will See You Now
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60 Seconds With… Robert Welch
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60 Seconds With… Baroness Patience Wheatcroft
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60 Seconds With… Mike Walsh
Opinion
Tough debates ahead? Just cancel the board
Opinion
Has Peak-Trump Triggered the “Woke” Board?
Interview
Strategic Adviser: Kerry Porritt
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60 Seconds With… John Handley
Events
Portfolio Company Board Effectiveness
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Product update
DXA’19 Nomination for ‘Best App’
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Employee Voice — What Difference Will the Reforms Make to the Board Conversation?
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60 Seconds With… Paul Franks
Events
The Role & Value of Board Meetings in PE-Backed Businesses — London Roundtable
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In conversation with Major General Paul Nanson & Brigadier Bill Wright
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60 Seconds With… David Hall
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60 Seconds With… Liz Kelly
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60 Seconds With… Calum Paterson
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60 Seconds With… Adrian McGlynn
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60 Seconds With… Bill Priestley
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Events
The Governance Grand Tour — Bristol
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60 Seconds With… Barnaby Lenon
Events
The Governance Grand Tour — Edinburgh
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60 Seconds With… Sue Murphy
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60 Seconds With… Murray Steele
Asset Managers: Are You Ready for Change?
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Case Study — The Clothworkers’ Company
Events
The Governance Grand Tour — Dublin
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60 Seconds With… Jocelyn Stuart-Grumbar
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Events
The Governance Grand Tour — Birmingham
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Case Study — Rolls-Royce
Opinion
Are Politicians Widening the Gulf Between Big Business and Society?
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Press
Shorter And Sharper Board Packs Please!
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FD article: Preparing Best Practice Finance Reports
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