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More on the Corporate Governance Crisis
You may not have time to read the two books on Corporate Governance by Bob Garrett, an International Corporate Governance & Board…
Paul Barnett
Aug 4, 2020
Overcoming the Dramatic Failure of Corporations by Addressing the Governance and Stewardship Crises
Overcoming the Dramatic Failure of Corporations by Addressing the G...
“If we look at them in the light of their potential, most commercial corporations are dramatic failures — or, at best, underachieve. They…
Paul Barnett
Jul 2, 2020
IoD Centre of Corporate Governance Launch: Pushing for Improved Corporate Governance
IoD Centre of Corporate Governance Launch: Pushing for Improved Cor...
On June 29th the Financial Times reported, “City executives lead corporate governance drive”. They were speaking of the new Institute of…
Paul Barnett
Jul 1, 2020
Directors Are Above The Law As The Law Currently Stands
Directors Are Above The Law As The Law Currently Stands
Yesterday the Financial Times published a “Big Read” article on “The Legal Fight over a company’s ‘controlling mind’” [also referred to as…
Paul Barnett
Mar 11, 2020
Buffett on Boards: “Directors are often captive to the management teams they are meant to…
Buffett on Boards: “Directors are often captive to the management t...
Warren Buffet recently posted his latest “letter to shareholders” within the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report. What did he have to say…
Paul Barnett
Feb 23, 2020
The Global Governance Crisis: Boards In Denial
The Global Governance Crisis: Boards In Denial
All board members I speak to individually are perfectly willing to admit the challenges boards face are daunting. But collectively boards…
Paul Barnett
Feb 22, 2020
Time To Start Walking the Talk With Social Contracts, Value Schemes and Social Contract Accounting.
Time To Start Walking the Talk With Social Contracts, Value Schemes...
As I reported in my previous article, the Financial Reporting Council recently published the findings of its early assessment of 82…
Paul Barnett
Feb 9, 2020
Strategy, The Board & Value Creation
Strategy, The Board & Value Creation
The Guidance on the Strategic Report, a part of company’s annual report (along with a new UK Corporate Governance Code 2018 and Guidance…
Paul Barnett
Feb 9, 2020
Shocking But Not Surprising: 2018 Corporate Governance Code Early Adopter Failings
Shocking But Not Surprising: 2018 Corporate Governance Code Early A...
In the UK the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published the 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code (2018 Code) in July of that year. The…
Paul Barnett
Feb 7, 2020
Strategy, the Board and Value Creation
Strategy, the Board and Value Creation
The following article was first published in September 2018, soon after the new guidance documents were published. In January 2020 the FRC…
Paul Barnett
Feb 7, 2020
BOARD & CEO: THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND INTO A DECADE OF RADICAL CHANGE
BOARD & CEO: THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND INTO A DECADE OF RADICAL C...
Back in May 2019, the BCG Henderson Institute began to outline how they see business evolving in the new decade we have just begun. They…
Paul Barnett
Jan 30, 2020
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