Making Your Board a Strategic Asset
Apr 9, 2020
Covid 19 is first and foremost a human tragedy. To executives and directors: Your staff are worried,anxious,possibly financially stretched,and no doubt fearful on a number of fronts.Be emphatic and sympathetic and above all keep communicating. Put yourself in their...
Apr 6, 2020
The UK Supreme Court now operates almost 100% online,doctors’ consultations are being carried out more online freeing valuable time in their surgeries,the public sector is ditching legacies of bureaucratic processes because of the pandemic,the private sector has...
Feb 20, 2017
There is an interesting article by Estelle Clark (Executive Director of Policy at the Chartered Quality Institute) in this month’s IoD magazine ‘Director’. The article is about the benefits of quality governance but she makes the point that...
Dec 9, 2016
Will the business card(initially a french invention)survive in an age of social media?
Nov 24, 2016
There seems to be an ever-increasing problem with our exposure to cyber crime. As directors, we need to ensure that the boards we sit on take this problem seriously because the costs are potentially catastrophic. In just one area alone, that of identity fraud in the...
Nov 1, 2016
De Beers appointed ad agency N W Ayers in 1938 to convince Americans that a diamond ring was the best symbol of love and a pre requisite to a happy marriage. The rest as they say is history.