Why every lawyer should listen to Prof Empson’s “Insecure Overachievers”
In her BBC Radio 4 documentary, broadcast this week and available on BBC iPlayer, Prof Empson told us nothing new and everything new. We...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jul 16, 2018
- 3 min
The FRC includes a crucial word in the new UK Corporate Governance Code
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) today published the new UK Corporate Governance Code to predictably mixed reviews. However, one...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jul 9, 2018
- 3 min
How truth and reconciliation processes can help boards, nations and families
I briefly met Nelson Mandela and F W De Klerk at The World Economic Forum Africa Summit in Cape Town in 1994 when I was Commercial...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jul 2, 2018
- 2 min
Why lawyers and CXOs should listen to @rafaelbehr
“It sounds dull, but backstage legal bores are our antidote to...bullshitters. They are the types we will need one day to clean up this...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jun 16, 2018
- 3 min
Legal services: how to escape the 'more for less' trap
"All recipients of professional service...seem to be short of money...managers in business complain not only of shrinking budgets but...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jun 11, 2018
- 3 min
Lawyers could save the world, mirabile dictu...
Last week I facilitated a workshop involving over thirty in-house counsel from a large global corporate business. They were no different...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jun 6, 2018
- 3 min
Hay Festival: what boards can learn from Antony Beevor, Dambisa Moyo & Afua Hirsch
Recently at the Hay Festival, I had the good fortune on the same day to attend three great talks by three impressive speakers and, during...
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Ciaran Fenton
- May 30, 2018
- 4 min
A business turnaround is more likely if its directors agree a shared purpose
This article was first published by Resolve Group UK in May 2018: A successful business turnaround is more likely if directors have a...
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Ciaran Fenton
- May 18, 2018
- 4 min
If GCs waived their long-term incentive plans, would boards make better decisions?
This article was first published by The Law Society In-House InsideOut Magazine on April 30th. 2018. If GCs waived their long-term...
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Ciaran Fenton
- May 18, 2018
- 3 min
The Carillion Report: three behaviour lessons for boards
It would be unwise for anyone to indulge in schadenfreude on reading the Joint BEIS & Work and Pensions Committees Report into the...
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Ciaran Fenton
- May 18, 2018
- 1 min
Is it time for Director Effectiveness Reviews?
The picture above is a scan of some of my brainstorming doodles in the light of recent corporate traumas. I'm starting work with current...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jan 31, 2018
- 2 min
Can the FRC create a Phoenix from Carillion's ashes?
Yesterday I attended a Roundtable on the Financial Reporting Council's proposed new governance code hosted by PWC, under Chatham House...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jan 29, 2018
- 3 min
The Post: Why your board should watch it, altogether
At the end of your next board meeting I recommend that you and your fellow board members should all go out to the cinema, watch The Post,...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jan 22, 2018
- 3 min
Progressive boards: why not use the Jacinda Arden story to revolutionise "mat leave"?
"Woman at work with a baby" should not be headline news. Work in the 21st Century must be about integrating home and work life in a...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jan 17, 2018
- 4 min
Could a Devil's Advocate process prevent a Carillion situation in your business?
It's easy to throw rocks at Carillion. As some of the reasons for its collapse are emerging, so are the grim implications for those...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jan 4, 2018
- 3 min
Why your board’s business strategy should include personal lives
Can you think of a business strategy which does not include people? I wager you can’t because there isn’t one. Your board’s business...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jan 4, 2018
- 3 min
Does Mrs May’s Cabinet decision-making processes reflect a wider malaise in UK corporate governance?
“The cabinet has not discussed, let alone agreed, precisely what kind of relationship with the EU the UK should be seeking” writes James...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Jan 4, 2018
- 7 min
Organisations don't have DNA, people do
This is the text of a talk I gave at a workshop that I hosted at the IOD, London on 29 November 2017. A video of the talk is available...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Nov 27, 2017
- 3 min
Why boards should use HBR’s list of Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2017 with caution
Harvard Business Review has recently published its annual Best-Performing CEOs in the World rankings. Pablo Isla, Martin Sorrell and...
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Ciaran Fenton
- Nov 27, 2017
- 3 min
Three leadership lessons CEOs can learn from Gordon Brown’s autobiography, My Life, Our Times
If you are a CEO or an aspiring leader wishing to improve your leadership skills, you will not waste time reading the recently published...
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