article, blog
Alex and David were recently asked to write an article for the Institute of Leadership and Management’s on-line Insights journal. The looked not only at the value of evaluation for FTSE listed Boards (which is an FRC requirement) but also at Boards in the public...
blog
To celebrate their 20th anniversary Strategy + Business magazine recently published a catalogue of the most influential business ideas throughout history. Their editors and various leading thinkers came up with 400 or so major concepts and leadership principles. This...
event
The annual Socia leadership briefing in March this year brought together a panel of experts to discuss the particular challenges of working on non-plc Boards. Read our governance magazine article based on discussions and conclusions from the panel.
article, blog
I’ve just been reading an interesting article on collaboration and sustainability from Jonathan Rowson at the RSA. In it he makes the case for why we need businesses to collaborate in areas such as low carbon energy supply in order to develop long term...
blog
Being right doesn’t count… Sometimes the most important lessons are the easiest to state but the hardest to learn. Thirty years ago I was just starting my first job as a graduate engineer at what was then the biggest chemical works in Europe at ICI on Teesside. Armed...
published articles
After our successful Socia event in March where a panel debated the importance of evaluation in order to improve Board performance, Governance magazine has published an article by Alex and David which summarises the main messages from this discussion. The article...
published articles
When it comes to what makes company boards effective and what keeps directors awake at night, boardrooms are really not so different. By encouraging the use of a common framework for board evaluation – based on the FRC code – NEDs and executives can...
article
The space between Christmas and New Year is a great time for reflection and catching up on that pile of reading that has been building up in the ‘Quite Interesting’ section of the to-do list. It’s also traditionally a time for looking forward with a sense of hope and...
news
FT columnist Stefan Stern has written an article on the learning that private, public and 3rd sector Boards can take from one another which quotes from the Socia Board surveyand Board leadership seminar. You can read his article on the FT website (full access may...
article, LinkedIn-Alex
The dust is settling on the UK 2015 election with self-congratulation for the victors and the ritual resignations of the losers. There were many factors which made this election unique, but most important, if you are interested in collaboration, is that this was an...
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