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Sustainability and Governance – the Global Challenge

Sustainability and Governance – the Global Challenge

The Future of Planet Earth in 2024 and Beyond The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best? - Thomas SowellAs we enter 2024 with some trepidation, Planet Earth appears to be facing an increasing number of existential threats on so...

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Artificial Intelligence vs Governance

Artificial Intelligence vs Governance

Artificial Intelligence vs Governance Artificial Intelligence presents both risk and opportunity in the Boardroom. How will your Board harness the opportunities while treating the risk?The future of corporate governance is poised to be shaped by a constellation of...

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AI and the Future of Corporate Governance

AI and the Future of Corporate Governance

AI and the Future of Corporate Governance Technological advancements and growing societal expectations are driving a continuous evolution in governance models. The integration of Artificial Intelligence, for example, poses new ethical and governance challenges that...

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Austerity’s Victims by Neil Carpenter

Austerity’s Victims by Neil Carpenter

Austerity’s Victims exposes the reality, describing in detail the lives of five men living in Cornwall. Their income, below the relative poverty threshold, is compared with national/county medians and the Minimum Income Standard of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Their quality of life, as support and benefits are cut away, is also examined and shown to fall a long way short of the wellbeing defined in the 2014 Care Act.

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Time to Think™

Time to Think™

The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. The quality of our thinking depends on the way we treat each other while we are thinking.

Using our Transforming Meetings Programme™ clients save as much as 1/3 of time spent in meetings, enhancing clarity of purpose and thought, and optimising decision-making.

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Uber stripped of London taxi licence

Uber stripped of London taxi licence

Transport for London rejected Uber's license application According to a brief article in the Guardian today, Transport for London said it rejected Uber's application because their approach and conduct show "a lack of corporate responsibility. Uber said it will appeal...

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Theresa May’s plan to put workers in boardrooms is extraordinary!

Theresa May’s plan to put workers in boardrooms is extraordinary!

Theresa May’s plan to put workers in boardrooms is extraordinary!
The next prime minister didn’t merely attack grotesque levels of pay in FTSE 100 boardrooms, a refrain heard in vague terms from most of the runners in the Tory leadership race. She also wants employees to be represented on company boards, a specific proposal that reopens a debate that hasn’t been aired seriously in mainstream British politics since the mid-70s.

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Brexit Vote: What does it mean for Compliance?

Brexit Vote: What does it mean for Compliance?

Following the referendum vote to leave the EU, the UK Financial Conduct Authority released a statement confirming that companies must continue to “abide by their obligations under UK law, including those derived from EU law and continue with implementation plans for legislation that is still to come into effect.”

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