Making Your Board a Strategic Asset
Mar 14, 2023
Jean Pousson, our Managing Director, shares his insights as to what makes a good/great Director No one teaches you to be a Director. For many it seems like a natural progression from successful senior management positions and into the Boardroom. It is also fair to say...
Feb 7, 2023
Insights from our Managing Director, Jean Pousson, as Boards navigate through a potentially perilous 2023. No sooner have we recovered from the aftershocks of the terrible pandemic with supply chain and labour disruptions, that we now face high(er) inflation, high(er)...
Oct 31, 2022
Please don’t ever ask that question, suggests Jean Pousson, our Managing Director, as he looks at typical finance Board conversations, that are too ambiguous, or simply incorrect. The above question is one that I hear often. Although genuine in intent, the question...
Sep 21, 2022
Our Managing Director, Jean Pousson, offers some insights to Directors in the current chaotic business climate. Uncertainty has always been a property of business. But events of the last 18 months or so would have flatfooted even the smartest economic soothsayers. No...
May 9, 2022
Our Managing Director, Jean Pousson, looks at the benefits of conducting regular Board Effectiveness Reviews. Teams are as old as civilisation itself. Even Jesus had 12 Apostles and one of them turned. (Maybe that Board was already too big?) Joking aside, Board...
Jan 10, 2022
Jean Pousson reflects on over 30 years of lecturing on finance and finance-related subjects, in over 30 countries to an estimated 17,000 course delegates. Over the festive period, I did a rough estimate of how many delegates I have had the pleasure of training on...