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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.”
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Rita Clifton CBE: “There are two things you can never really say as a non-executive director.”
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Tara Cemlyn-Jones: “Everyone in an organisation has a role to play in changing culture.”
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BoardClic / Board Intelligence: Q&A with Monica Lagercrantz and Malin Lombardi
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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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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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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Janice Ellig: “You cannot hire integrity. Great leaders have good character at their core.”
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Zena Couppey: “Robust governance takes discipline”
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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.”
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Eve Henrikson on organisational agility: “Learning what will drive you forward often necessitates learning what won’t.”
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Julie Pomeroy: “Ask the naïve questions; it’s likely others are thinking the same thing.”
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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.”
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Governance Game Changers: Spotlight on Muriel Thorne
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Saker Nusseibeh: “The market can’t solve problems without social cohesion.”
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Interview with Adam Banks, NED & former CIO of Visa & AP Moller Maersk
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Andrew White: “To deliver any kind of transformation, you need to put people at the heart of the process.”
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Tim Ward on organisational agility: “Governance itself doesn’t do anything, but it allows people to be their best.”
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Bridget Rosewell: “Most CEOs tell me they have more experiences of boards that complicate things than of boards being effective.”
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Paul Polman: “Being ‘less bad’ isn’t good enough anymore.”
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Simon Devonshire on organisational agility: “Right now, the biggest risk for corporates is the risk of being boring.”
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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?’”
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Clare Holt on organisational agility: “Your governance, too, should accelerate change.”
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Fairer Future case study: Greg Turner-Smart
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Graham Singleton: “For the regulator, board packs ballooning with compliance can be seen as a canary in the coal mine.”
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Neil Hayward on organisational agility: “Innovation shouldn’t need to seek permission.”
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Governance Game Changers: Spotlight on Caroline Tolhurst.
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Orna NiChionna: “Boards remain the ultimate arbiter, but the frequency of their meetings has stopped being what determines how fast decisions can be made.”
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The ExCo’s guide to shorter papers: Spotlight on Rachel Turk, Group Head of Strategy, Beazley
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Gavin Hayes: “Nearly a quarter of boards do not even articulate the kind of culture they want.”
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Michael Jary: “Chairs are rightly praised for developing collective purpose and building consensus, but if taken too far these inhibit challenge of the norms.”
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Ruth Handcock: “Having the discipline to talk about all stakeholders is not easy, but eventually it becomes second nature.”
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The ExCo’s guide to shorter papers: Spotlight on John Tonkiss, CEO, McCarthy Stone
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Hanneke Smits: “You can’t react quickly enough if your modus operandi is just to escalate problems all the way to the board.”
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Gavin Patterson: “As board information evolves, so will board members.”
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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.”
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Vindi Banga: “People make or break your organisation, and they should be discussed every time you meet, not once a year.”
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Ed Warner: “You need the right motivations to chair a sporting governing board”
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Mark Winlow: “Nobody is nobody. How you interact with people is important.”
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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.”
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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.”
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Sir Michael Rake: “You have to be violently calm during a crisis.”
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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.”
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André Zerafa: “Disagreeing isn’t the same as challenging.”
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Sir John Parker: “To effect change, the important thing is planting the flag.”
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David Kelly: “A lot of businesses don’t know what their ESG north star is.”
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Richard Meddings: “When you sign up to a board, you sign up for the challenges.”
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Tom Ilube: “Diversity and inclusion aren’t issues to tackle and forget, they’re tools to hone so you can win.”
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Sir Andrew Likierman: What independent judgment truly means for boards
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Jane Hanson: “Each individual contribution may be good on its own, but put them all together and it becomes a great symphony.”
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Matthew Westerman: “Good mentors know how to listen — and, just as importantly, to teach that skill.”
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Sir Peter Gershon: “Beware the shadow you cast in a senior role.”
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Terri Duhon: “In a ‘K-shaped’ recovery, you need to know which part of the ‘K’ you’re on and how you got there.”
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Lynne Berry: “Reports have a natural tendency to hide the warts, and that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what the board does.”
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Tom Colraine: “The chances of black swans don’t disappear, they just jostle for attention in our minds and agendas.”
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John Allan: “Resist the urge to rush through the agenda — especially when the solution looks obvious.”
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Keith Skeoch: “As chair, you’re the person that has the last vote — but it’s a failure if you have to use it.”
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Sir Anthony Habgood: “You need everyone to take board meetings seriously, and your board material should reflect these expectations.”
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William Harris: “Leaders who manage with compassion get better results, it’s scientifically documented.”
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Manon Antoniazzi: “A good board meeting is one that charts a path.”
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Improvements in the boardroom create a ripple effect felt far and wide
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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.”
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60 Second Interview With Mark Humphries, Chair and NED of Vendigital
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Wrapping up 2020
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Alison Munro: “It’d be a waste to simply go back to old habits.”
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Angela Lockwood: “You can’t simply tell managers, ‘From Monday on, you’ll trust your staff more.’”
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Paul Lester: “If you’ve been thinking of trying something new, this is the time to do it.”
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Helen White: “Why are we here in the first place?”
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Douglas van den Aardweg: “Boards shouldn’t be waiting for Government to tell us what to do.”
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Martin Gilbert: “The days of autocratic leadership are over.”
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60 Second Interview With Justine Campbell
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“We must move from incremental solutions to exponential ones.”
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Glen Moreno: “Confident chairs aren’t afraid to tell management ‘You’re not providing information, just numbers.’”
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Golden Rules From the Charity Boardroom
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60 Second Interview with Sharon Thorne.
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60 Seconds with Matthew Parker, CEO of Babble.
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David Bennett: “When boards don’t articulate the value their businesses bring to stakeholders, the world ends up not seeing it.”
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Martin Temple: “My first priority is ensuring the board gives the executives the resources to get the job done.”
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60 Seconds With… Stuart Layzell
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Phillip Ullmann: “Businesses need to generate profit, that’s obvious, but we have to ask: ‘To what end?’”
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60 Seconds With… Jenny Davies
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60 Seconds With… Andy Bord
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60 Seconds With… Jon Andrew
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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
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Strategic Adviser: Kerry Porritt
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The Role & Value of Board Meetings in PE-Backed Businesses — London Roundtable
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60 seconds with… Major General Paul Nanson & Brigadier Bill Wright
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60 Seconds With… David Hall
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