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This category is Corporate Governance, exploring best practices, ethical leadership, and regulatory frameworks that shape corporate decision-making. It features expert insights on transparency, accountability, and strategies for building resilient, well-governed organizations in a dynamic business landscape.

So, you think you have a strategy? Five poor excuses for a strategy

By Freek Vermeulen No matter how colourful your PowerPoint presentation, it does not mean you have a strategy. So what is strategy and what are...

The Anatomy of Board of Director Culture

By Patrick R. Dailey Culture matters more than before. Unless the right board culture is in place, nothing very special is likely to happen. Talented directors...
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Neurodiversity as a Catalyst for Change in the Modern-Day Workplace 

By Charlotte Roberts   Gone are the days of a ‘one-size-fits-all’ workplace, and as businesses strive to innovate and adapt, neurodiversity works as a powerful catalyst...

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...
On Being an effective Director in family-owned enterprises

The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Being an Effective Director in Family-owned Enterprises

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. So much is written and said about what it means...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Retention Factor – Why Boards Need to Prioritise...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. When LGBT+ employees feel their employers aren't doing enough to...

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: Rethinking Talent in the Boardroom

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Organisations are facing major challenges. Many boardrooms have not yet...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Can Accounting Save the World and Your Company?

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. As we recorded this podcast, the World Economic Forum convened...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: How do Boards Preside Wisely Over Transactions to Avoid...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. It is well-known that the track record for successful acquisition...

Complexity Kills Profits – CEOs need to simplify their businesses

By Simon Collinson and Melvin Jay The competitive environment is becoming more complex and unpredictable, and senior managers have no control over the underlying trends,...

The Importance of Adopting a Loving Attitude Towards Stakeholders

By Dr. Bruno Roque Cignacco In the business environment, love is commonly seen as a feeling totally alien to the cultures of most organisations. Some...
The Role of the Next Generation on Boards of Family-Owned Enterprises

The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Role of the Next Generation on Boards of...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Transferring a family-owned enterprise to the next generation raises complex...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Increasing Productivity Through Inclusion

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Diversity and inclusion are not evenly distributed throughout an...
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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...
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Business-Centric GRC for SAP Customers – How to Get the Most out of Your...

By Dudley Cartwright, co-founder and CEO of Soterion Investing in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is one of the most important business investments you can...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Being on the Board – Keeping it Simple

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series Amid global uncertainty, are boardrooms needlessly complex? Is It possible...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: How to Get Creativity and Innovation into the Boardroom

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Many Directors have positive intentions to leverage the experiences gained...

Integrative Intelligence for a Trust-based Worldview for Business

By Sharda Nandram, Puneet Bindlish and Navin Keizer Trust forms the bedrock of any business and can be seen as the fundamental currency of all...
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Board Membership: Navigating the New Uncertainties

Remember when there was an invisible line separating business from political and social movements? Corporate leaders largely kept quiet about their beliefs and values, trying...
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4 Trends in Reputation that CEOs Need to Understand

By Sharon Fishburne Businesses of all sizes are having to think more seriously about their reputations. A reputational crisis not only damages consumer confidence in a...

Values, Values on the wall, Just do business and forget them all: Wells Fargo,...

By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan There is a growing discrepancy between the values stated on the wall and values in action. In the...

Managing People in Mergers and Acquisitions Part 2: Integration and Survival

By Guido Stein and Marta Cuadrado In Part One, we addressed the key reasons why companies decide to pursue merger, the reasons why many...
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Legal and Compliance Challenges in Ethical Value Chains: Mitigating Corruption and Protecting Brand Equity

By Ken D. Johnson and Dana E. Heitz The article explores how companies can build ethical value chains by addressing corruption through legal compliance and...
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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...

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

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...
AI – Rethinking business

The Better Boards Podcast Series: AI – Rethinking business

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. AI and generative AI are capturing the headlines. We know...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Is Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Bad for Business?

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Recently, there has been a surge on social media stating...

What leadership policies can help uplift the middle class?

It is quite unfortunate that the liberal and capitalist values that have been propagated for long didn’t prove fruitful for the masses. The situation...
Financial Crime Keeps Us All Poor

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 Rise of the Functional Manager Changes Afoot in the C-Suite

By Maria Guadalupe, Julie Wulf & Hongyi Li Research shows that the recent transformation in the C-suite, that is, the skyrocketing number of executive team...
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Climate Action is in the Hands of the C-Suite

By Renaud Bettin As companies face rising pressures from consumers, investors, and sustainability reporting regulations, it is essential that the entire C-Suite assumes responsibility for...

The Value of Gender-Based Leadership

By Melissa Greenwell If a roomful of men can draw on their experiences and insights to help a business succeed, a roomful of men and...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Mastering Internal Board Evaluation

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Corporate Governance Codes worldwide state that an internal board evaluation...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: My Experience of Working with a Board for the...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Boards can be complex structures, which can be overwhelming for...

Leading with Ethics and Compliance

By Mark Meaney As millions take to the streets in a global protest of corporate malfeasance, Dean Rich Lyons of the Haas School of Business...
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Approaching Risk From the Boardroom

By Francisco Vieira and Pedro B. Agua Boards of directors have been forced to pay increased attention to organisational risk and due governance. It is...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: U.S. and U.K. – Two Countries Separated by Common...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. The playwright George Bernard Shaw once noted that England and...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: How to Lead Through Complexity

The podcast and the articles are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Every year, the world's preeminent leadership advisory firm, Egon Zehnder, conducts...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Future-Proofing Your Board

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. There has been massive instability at a global level in...

Gender Diversity in the Boardroom: Finding an Optimal Level?

By Won-Yong Oh, Loren Falkenberg, and Jim Dewald There has been an increase in the number of women serving on boards. Today, everyone talks about...

Think Again: How good leaders can avoid bad decisions

By Andrew Campbell and Jo Whitehead Leaders can make good decisions or less good decisions. Several years ago, we set out to understand the causes...

What Leaders Do… Requisite Competency for 21st Century Challenges

By Patrick R. Dailey
 From the earliest recorded leadership teachings of Confucius to contemporary theorists and practitioners, leadership has consistently been viewed as the decisive...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Leading an Effective Board

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. What does good look like? What does it mean to...

Corporate Culture: What It Is and Why It Is Important

By Adrian Furnham A functional corporate culture benefits both the company and its employees. In this article, the author provides an overview on the origin...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Insights into the German Corporate Governance Debate – Learnings,...

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Every country has its fair share of corporate failures. Afterwards,...

The Dirty Dozen: How Unethical Behaviour Creeps Into Your Organisation

By Urs Müller and Ulf Schäfer This article presents some of the most influential drivers of unethical behaviour in business and suggests counter-strategies. Reviewing the...
On Creating a Digitally Savvy Board

The Better Boards Podcast Series: On Creating a Digitally Savvy Board

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. Being digitally conversant in an era of digital transformation is...
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The Better Boards Podcast Series: Behind the Closed Doors of Tech Start-up Boards

The podcast and the article are brought to you by The Better Boards Podcast Series. The board is a powerful asset for tech start-ups, with...

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Feel to Deal: The Power of Emotions in Negotiations

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We Need to Talk About Women Bullying Other Women at Work & 6 Key Things We Can do to Change it

By Vanessa Vershaw The truth is out: women are not supporting each other enough in the workplace. Despite efforts to advance gender equality, the latest global gender gap report reveals only a 1% increase annually...

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