by Charlie Helps FRSA | Jan 4, 2021 | Book Review, Governance, Guest Author, Political
1,000,000 adults with a learning disability in the UK have suffered because of government ‘austerity’ measures Guest author Neil Carpenter exposes the reality, describing in detail the lives of five men living in Cornwall. Their income, below the relative...
by Charlie Helps FRSA | Oct 26, 2020 | Articles, Governance, Political
The Seven Principles of Public Life outline the ethical standards that working in the public sector requires. The Principles were first set out in the Committee on Standards in Public Life’s first report by Lord Nolan in 1995, and they are included in a range of Codes...
by Charlie Helps FRSA | Sep 3, 2020 | Articles, Governance, Political
The Committee on Standards in Public Life is maintaining a close watch on standards issues arising as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chair of the Committee’s Research Advisory Board, Professor Mark Philp, discusses how the Nolan Principles can be used to help...
by Charlie Helps FRSA | Jan 21, 2018 | Articles, Consulting and Advisory, Insight, Leadership
With corporate failures prominent in the headlines, the words “corporate governance” have entered the mainstream media. The expression “failure of corporate governance” has become commonplace, and the names of culprit companies and directors have become all too...
by Charlie Helps FRSA | Dec 22, 2017 | Articles, Featured Experts, Interviews
Outrage at corruption drove the reformation 500 years ago, could similar outrage drive a modern economic reformation? We asked Henry Leveson Gower to tell us his thoughts on corruption, and wow, did he tell us! Here’s Henry’s article: Larry Elliot in his...
by Charlie Helps FRSA | Dec 21, 2017 | Articles, Innovation, Insight, Inspiration, Leadership, Motivation, Nancy Kline, Thinking Environment™, Time to Think™
“Everything we do begins with thinking. If our thinking is good, our decisions are good, our actions are good, our outcomes are good.” Nancy Kline, Time To Think The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. The...