In her BBC Radio 4 documentary, broadcast this week and available on BBC iPlayer, Prof Empson told us nothing new and everything new. We know that the stress...

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) today published the new UK Corporate Governance Code to predictably mixed reviews. However, one overwhelmingly positive...

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 Director of Financial Time...

“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 mess” writes Rafael B...

"All recipients of professional service...seem to be short of money...managers in business complain not only of shrinking budgets but also that they have mor...

Last week I facilitated a workshop involving over thirty in-house counsel from a large global corporate business. They were no different from any group I hav...

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 audience questions,...

This article was first published by Resolve Group UK in May 2018: A successful business turnaround is more likely if directors have a shared purpose and a Re...

This article was first published by The Law Society In-House InsideOut Magazine on April 30th. 2018. If GCs waived their long-term incentive plans, would boa...

It would be unwise for anyone to indulge in schadenfreude on reading the Joint BEIS & Work and Pensions Committees Report into the collapse of Carillion publ...

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 clients on director ...

Yesterday I attended a Roundtable on the Financial Reporting Council's proposed new governance code hosted by PWC, under Chatham House Rules. It's no breach ...

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, and then have dinne...

"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 manner that does not put w...

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 immediately affected. The...

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 strategy is about how yo...

“The cabinet has not discussed, let alone agreed, precisely what kind of relationship with the EU the UK should be seeking” writes James Forsyth in The Spect...

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 here: https://goo.gl/A...

Harvard Business Review has recently published its annual Best-Performing CEOs in the World rankings. Pablo Isla, Martin Sorrell and Jensen Huang are in firs...

If you are a CEO or an aspiring leader wishing to improve your leadership skills, you will not waste time reading the recently published autobiography, My Li...