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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Increasing Productivity Through Inclusion
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Diversity and inclusion are not evenly distributed throughout an...
What is Accounting Fraud? A Guide for Safe Accounting & Compliance
Overview
The world of business is not foreign to accounting scandals and fraud. From entrepreneurs to employees, from managers to maids, it is not uncommon...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Making it in the Boardroom
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The boardroom is a desirable place, and after a successful...
How the company secretary’s role is set to evolve to continue to add value...
The role of the company secretary in supporting board effectiveness can sometimes be overlooked. They provide a valuable service as a repository of corporate...
The Benefits of Trusting More (with reservations)
By J. Keith Murnighan
Trust is critical for leaders. Without trust, leadership is impossible. The problem, however, is that trust always entails risk.
“Every stranger is...
What Kind of Challenges for Businesses Face with Compliance in 2021?
Compliance is one of the most important parts of a business that a company can face, and yet so many are still making errors....
Create an Alumni of Retired Board Members
Don’t close the door to a source of wisdom and advice that can aid better decision making
Nine years is usually the maximum amount of...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: How can Boards Convert Sustainability from a Wish to...
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Boards have an essential role to play. When companies face...
What Are We Doing Today to Prevent Our Company’s Next Ethical Disaster?
By David De Cremer
Imagine that you are walking past a restaurant where you clearly see that the condition of the electric wiring in the...
The Board’s Responsibility for Internal Control of Non-Financial Reporting
By Tim Bovy and Ian Hodges
It is only a matter of time before the SEC’s proposed rules for environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting...
CEOs, Mind Your Own Business! Why and How Corporate CEOs Should Pay More Attention...
By Andrew Campbell, Sven Kunisch & Günter Müller-Stewens
The corporate office consists of the CEO and the corporate functions. It is the main vehicle for...
The NATO Alliance: Will It Have a Future?
By Joseph Mazur
Withdrawal and isolation could avoid foreign affairs and wars, but the costs will be far higher in the long run.
Since the end...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Being on the Board – Keeping it Simple
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Amid global uncertainty, are boardrooms needlessly complex? Is It possible...
An Investor’s Least Favourite Statement – “Oops, Wrong CEO”
By Leslie Pratch
It is possible to identify executives who are likely to act with consistently high integrity and who demonstrate sound, timely judgment when...
Transformative Transitions: 8 Exit Archetypes Every Company Founder Must Know
By Merilee Kern
An expert examination of the prototypical exist phases—and crucial navigational strategies—founders must heed in today’s economic climate
Business transitions are important for several...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: How to Lead Through Complexity
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Every year, the world's preeminent leadership advisory firm, Egon Zehnder, conducts...
The Simplexity Gap Why Boards are Always a Step Behind their Management Teams –...
By Mihnea Moldoveanu and Richard Nesbitt
How impactful can simplexity gap be in corporate boards? In this article, the authors show how such gap undermines...
Financial Crime Keeps Us All Poor
By Jared Bibler
It was the first full week of October 2008, and stunningly, all three major Icelandic banks collapsed between Monday and Thursday. The...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Being an Effective Non-Executive Director
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One of the most frequently asked questions to Better Boards...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Governance – Wicked Challenges in Healthcare
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Healthcare in the U.K. is state-funded and led by way...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: How to Get Creativity and Innovation into the Boardroom
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Many Directors have positive intentions to leverage the experiences gained...
A Wake-Up-Call for the Boards on Innovation
By Alessandro Di Fiore, Jonas Vetter and Joachim von Heimburg
Today, innovation is not limited to products, but includes business models. Boards can play a...
Compliance is Riskier Than Ever
By Gerry Zack, CEO, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics
Over the years, there has been a steady growth of compliance-related risks that bring untimely...
Covering Blind Spots. Does the Board have the Right Information for Effective Decision Making?
By Pedro B. Agua
Does your board have the right information for decision making? Better decision making has been a growing demand at any organizational...
Compliance of Rules, Regulations, and Law is Vital
One of the most frustrating aspects of manufacturing is the time and money spent to develop a new product. It is out there in...
Board of Directors Oversight of Leadership Risk
By Patrick R. Dailey and Charles H. Bishop
The practice of Enterprise Risk Management was born as a consequence of the Enron collapse in...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Gender Equality in the Workplace Starts at the Top
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Despite living in an era of rapid technological advancements, ground...
Becoming the Chairman
By Didier Cossin and Michael Watkins
The move from CEO to Chairman is a major role shift. Success requires a set of leadership qualities which...
Big Business Models Are Back-to-Front Create Long-term Value By Putting Shareholders At the Back-end...
By Paul Strebel
Large firms have been treating their shareholders as their most critical stakeholders. In the short run this might make sense, but not...
Leadership Innovation: Huawei’s rotating CEO system
By David De Cremer and Tian Tao
The CEO of an organisation is where the buck stops, and to whom all credit is due for...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: My Experience of Working with a Board for the...
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Boards can be complex structures, which can be overwhelming for...
We Need a Greater Focus on the Benefits Women in Top Executive Roles Bring...
By Sucheta Nadkarni
Recruiting women to corporate boards and top executive roles helps businesses find the best people and reach key consumers. There’s a risk...
Mastering Board Governance in the Digital Age
In the drive for digitalisation, the emphasis tends to be on the operational aspects of the business. But shouldn't there be benefits for the...
The Chief Strategy Officer in the European Firm: Professionalising Strategy in Times of Uncertainty
By Markus Menz, Günter Müller-Stewens, Tim Zimmermann & Christian Lattwein
The chief strategy officer (CSO) position has recently been gaining prominence in European firms. However,...
Corporate Governance In Startups Balancing Innovation and Sustainability
By Javier Cabetas, Iván Fernández-Muñoz, Pedro Cesar Martinez-Moran, and Fernando Diez
In an increasingly complex and globalised business world, corporate governance can guide companies to...
Reinventing Management
By Julian Birkinshaw
What is the future of management? Can management be reinvented to make it more effective as an agent of economic progress and...
How and When to Seek an Auditor?
Tax audits are a business’ and employer’s worst nightmare. While these investigations are not that common and are surely unusual, it’s best to prepare...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Creating a Digitally Savvy Board
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Being digitally conversant in an era of digital transformation is...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Future-Proofing Your Board
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There has been massive instability at a global level in...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Governance – Are Boards Part of the Problem or...
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So much of the global discussion of corporate governance...
Scandinavian secure-sharing software as a service: The ultimate solution for decision-makers
Interview with Møyfrid Øygard, Managing Director at Admincontrol
Admincontrol provides software solutions for secure collaboration and easy sharing of documents in business processes, such as...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Retention Factor – Why Boards Need to Prioritise...
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When LGBT+ employees feel their employers aren't doing enough to...
Improving Digital Innovation in Large Enterprise: Strengthening e-Leadership at C-level
By Joe Peppard, Simon Robinson and Tobias Hüsing
If your company doesn’t want to miss out on the new opportunities IT offers for business innovation,...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Mastering Internal Board Evaluation
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Corporate Governance Codes worldwide state that an internal board evaluation...
Leadership and the Structure of Trust
By Paul R. Lawrence and Robert Porter Lynch
Trust enables everything to move faster more effortlessly,and with less conflict.
In the business world, executives soon...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Role of Boards in Family-Owned Enterprises
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Family-owned or family-led enterprises are the backbone of thriving economies...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: Behind the Closed Doors of Tech Start-up Boards
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The board is a powerful asset for tech start-ups, with...
Gender Parody: How to Get Even More White Men on Your Corporate...
By Stefanie Johnson
Unlike the United States, many European countries have seen declines in the percent of white men on corporate boards. The author presents...
Brilliant Senior Team Work
By John Sutherland
A large number of businesses have a gap between the espoused strategy and what actually happens day by day. So much so...
Resilience Is More than Being Able to Rebound: It Should Be Used As a...
By Jacques Bughin
While they may not be able to prevent pending economic crises such as those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses can use...
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Environmental Heroes and Villains – What Separates Truly Sustainable Organisations from those that Play Around the Edges?
By Giovani Palafox-Alcantar
COP29 underscored the gap between climate commitments and tangible actions, reflecting both progress and significant challenges. What is the critical role of business in bridging this gap and why are some companies...
Top Picks for 2025: Key Articles for Leaders and Readers
As we move into 2025, leaders are navigating a rapidly changing economic and cultural landscape, where understanding technological innovation, shifting business models, and global trade dynamics will be crucial to long-term success. So will...
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