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Are you connected with the soul of your company?
We must all search harder for the soul of our…
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Discovering and nurturing tomorrow’s wealth creators
Project Can Do is empowering young students to…
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Asylum — Is business playing its part?
Businesses and their boards should play their…
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Memo to the chair: Unhappy about ticking those ESG boxes? Then lead from the front
Shouldn’t company boards now be on a war footing?
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Creativity — a basic requirement for business students
Business students aren’t known for their…
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Transparency was yesterday. Tomorrow is about vigilance. Four questions boards need to ask
Boards must prepare for a new era in which…
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It’s fine to set up a youth board, but what is your company doing about intergenerational fairness?
Boards and leadership teams are tackling the…
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Migration — the fairness test to come
“Who is my neighbour?” will increasingly loom…
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We need to talk about purpose — but also about values!
The Purposeful Company offers us 6…
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Does your company’s core activity help humans thrive?
Can you genuinely say your company’s activity…
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Thinking like an owner — a precious by-product of capitalism
Capitalism displays many faults, but…
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From Jack Welch to Paul Polman — what a change in just 15 years!
We have begun to recognise that the employee is a…
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Nadhim and Ram: two tales about fairness
Most of the coverage of the Nadhim Zahawi story…
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What companies do you most admire?
What companies do 15 year olds most admire and…
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Labour and the Twenty-First Century Economy — a twelve point plan for building a better capitalism
What is Labour’s plan for building better…
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What does respect for employees mean in the age of the algorithm?
What questions should boards ask when deploying…
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What if the Chancellor were an Anthropist?
An alternative Autumn statement from Mark Goyder.
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Echoes of a better future
A reflection on the Anthropy conference 2023
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Harvest economics
A sentimental throwback or idea whose time has…
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What do we mean by growth and why do we want it?
Start with what helps people flourish.
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Education should broaden minds. Too often we are doing the opposite.
Leonardo da Vinci would be horrified.
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Kwasi Kwarteng’s growth “plan” — a twentieth-century response to twenty-first century challenges
The Chancellor’s speech turns us back to the 70s.
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Saving ESG requires a radical change in its definition of “governance”
Learn about the challenges facing ESG governance…
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A little less wishful thinking, a little more listening, please
Running things isn’t governing.
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Chaos, crisis, and hope
Building a new manifesto for Britain.
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What DAOs teach us
Will crypto’s nonsense birth better governance?
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Climate gloom — from chair action to share action
We can do more than glueing ourselves to chairs.
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How lazy labels about business purpose fuel the indignation industry
Polarisation poses tough choices for companies.
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Stuart Kirk — a finance professional handicapped by his education
Fiduciary duty extends beyond finance.
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The bewilderment brew — how technology, privatisation and outsourcing combined can make life hard for customers
Hard-to-use products reflect insulated boards.
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What would make us proud of our country?
The Jubilee is a time to revisit our qualities.
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Trust and Russian money — time for the City to look in the mirror?
Can we be accused of wilful blindness?
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The Madness, Let Alone Unfairness, of US Executive Pay
Share-price-driven pay is a dangerous game.
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What Will It Take To Get Companies to Care About the Next Generation?
Values-driven companies act ahead of the law.
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Football’s Ownership Problem: Empower the Fans
What can British clubs learn from a Swedish bank?
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Will You Lead With Algorithms, or Be Led by Them?
Sophisticated tools can easily become blunt…
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Master or Servant — A New Agenda for Teaching Business
Business is about profitably serving others.
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Lithuanian Chocolates and Global Shocks
What questions must boards ask in a warring world?
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Culture — Are We Missing the Point?
Rethinking how we think about culture.
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The High Road To Improved Productivity
Wealth creation requires more than higher public…
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Yes to Levelling Up. No to Divisiveness and Ignoring Nature.
How can long-term focus be sustained?
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Stewardship — a joint responsibility that we have yet to crack
Shareholders and directors share the same duty.
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Stakeholder Capitalism - Fink Again
Exploring "stakeholder capitalism" with a focus…
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How Do We Stop Organisations Doing Stupid Things?
Discomfort now can prevent stupidity later.
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Has Private Equity Lost Its Way?
PE pioneers thought in terms of stewardship.
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We don’t need a CEO salary cap to solve inequality — We need this...
We don’t need to wait for a mandated CEO salary…
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Better Judgement
A better approach to procurement is needed.
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An Argument for Compassion
Competitive advantages follow benevolence.
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The virus putting boards under the microscope
Covid-19 forces directors to change their ways.
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Tackling the Housing Crisis Starts With Tackling the Good Governance Crisis
How effective governance and discussion in the…
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A Sports Team: If You Own It, Do You Really Want to Run It?
The tension between passion projects and good…
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Your Boardroom Team Talk
What Manchester City’s victory over Manchester…
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Board Members: Last-Chance Climate Saviours?
What can corporate boards do to consider their…
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Immune to Feedback? What NHS Governance Can Learn From Medicine
Why NHS governance teams should face feedback,…
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Economic ADHD? The Board Will See You Now
The board may be an old-fashioned tool, but it…
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Tough debates ahead? Just cancel the board
Proroguing Parliament will lead to worse outcomes.
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Has Peak-Trump Triggered the “Woke” Board?
Beyond shareholder-first philosophy to “improving…
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Are Politicians Widening the Gulf Between Big Business and Society?
Nuance is missing in recent public statements.

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