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Global Commentators on Governance for Two Decades
Is Corporate Governance in Troubled Waters?
We believe “governance” begins with people, and their choices, and their decisions, and their voices. We will work with you to bring your governance to life and to give you a fighting chance of avoiding national disasters like we are seeing played out at Carillion PLC.
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Could Corruption Drive a Reformation?
Could Corruption Drive a Reformation
Outrage at corruption drove the reformation 500 years ago, could similar outrage drive a modern economic reformation?
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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8 Ways to Inspire a Remote or Virtual Team
Leading a team who do not share the same physical space with you can be tough. How do you impart values, standards, and behaviours to people who are on the other side of the world?
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7 Keys to a Successful Board
These 7 critical factors make or break the success of any board of directors or top team. How many do you get right?
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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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Meet Noreena Hertz – One of the most Iconoclastic Women Leaders of our Time
NOREENA HERTZ is a decision-making guru, bestselling author and strategist who advises some of the world’s top CEOs and Presidents on economic, geopolitical and business decisions. She graduated from university at the age of 19. By the age of 23 she was advising the Russian government on its economic reforms.
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Creating Sustainable Companies Summit – Corporate Governance for a Changing World
Live streaming of this event is now offline as the event is finished. However, you can catch up on the proceedings in my Twitter Moment here: Corporate Governance for a Changing World Read the Corporate Governance for a Changing World on CharlieHelps.co Report Here...
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Guest Author Robert Purse on Corporate Culture
Robert Purse is a Guest Author on Charlie Helps and Co Blog, and Business Mentor at Virgin Start Up. Robert is an accomplished businessman with considerable experience under his belt. He's also 66 years of age, and 6"6' tall, so we thought it was a good idea to hear...
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Corporate Culture and the Role of Boards (Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast)
Stakeholders and society in general have a vested interest in healthy corporate values, attitudes and behaviours that lead to sustainable growth and long term economic success. On 20 July 2016, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published the results of a study...
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Women in Marketing Awards 2016 are Here!
Enter Now to be in the Running to Win in 2016 - Entries Close on 29 September 2016 Who can enter? The Awards are open to the whole of the UK. You can choose as many categories as you wish (a separate entry must be put together for each). Self and third party...
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UK to create £33m international anti-slavery fund
A £33m International Modern Slavery Fund will be created to tackle forced labour and trafficking in high risk countries, the prime minister said this weekend Source: UK to create £33m international anti-slavery fund - Supply Management Read More on Modern Slavery and...
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King IV Corporate Governance Report launches November
The long-awaited update of the King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa, King IV™, will be launched at a high-level conference at the Sandton Convention Centre on 1 November 2016. Interest in the conference is high: when online registrations opened on 6...
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What is a Megatrend, and How they will Change Everything!
'Megatrend' is a word coined to describe and group a set of changes in our world that are enormous in their impact, unprecedented in their magnitude, and apparently unstoppable in their march. They are global, sustained and macro economic forces of development that...
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Entrepreneur Raises $15.5 Million But Investor More Interested In Commenting On Her Looks
There are many reasons to compliment entrepreneur Jodie Fox. Four months ago, she raised $15.5 million in Series B funding from venture capital investors and Nordstrom, for the company she co-founded. Shoes of Prey lets customers custom-design women’s...
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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!
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.
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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Does Your Business Have Strategic Partners? Why Not?
One of the biggest mistakes business owners make is trying to do everything alone. To combat this error, business owners must hire and train the right employees. In addition, they should leverage strategic partners.
So what is a strategic partner? A strategic partner is another business with whom you enter into an agreement that aims to help both of you achieve more success.
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Why is Integrated Reporting Important for the Public Sector?
Honorary member of the Fulcrum Group, and chair of the International Integrated Reporting Council, Professor Mervyn King SC, speaks to Public Finance about what public sector organisations can gain from integrated reporting, the creation of the public sector pioneer network for and how it can help integrate public services.
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Core Values for 21st Century Business Success
Foundations of Corporate Governance
The UK Governance Code and the King Code are each considered minimum standards for entry to the stock markets of their respective countries, the UK and South Africa. They have similar, yet fascinatingly different origins. The UK Code was established in response to massive corporate failures in the UK, which left shareholders’ funds ravaged, with no recourse or accountability.
How we Correctly Predicted the Brexit Result
Our poll indicated that the British public would vote to leave the EU; official polls predicted that the UK would voted by a tiny margin to remain. How did we do it with a zero budget?
Our poll was different; we asked voters using social media to say how they would vote, in, or out, and we also asked them to choose as many matters which they were interested in, from the economy, to their favourite sport!
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EU in, or EU out?
In the snap poll we conducted on social media in the past week, we found statistical correlations that show some interesting trends.
Choose a subject or sport that voters said they were interested in or concerned about to see how that relates to their voting.
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Interview with Ms Sharon Stone
We interviewed Sharon Stone from our offices in Rome in her capacity as Global Campaign Chair at the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
Sharon speaks about fundraising for HIV/AIDS research, and her insights into the day-to-day realities for those suffering the devastating symptoms of the virus, including tiny orphans and other deeply vulnerable people.
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Entrepreneur Raises $15.5 Million But Investor More Interested In Commenting On Her Looks
There are many reasons to compliment entrepreneur Jodie Fox. Four months ago, she raised $15.5 million in Series B funding from venture capital investors and Nordstrom, for the company she co-founded. Shoes of Prey lets customers custom-design women’s...
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Psychology Students Invited to Prestigious Leadership Event on Global Population
Psychology Students Invited to Prestigious Leadership Event on Global Population
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Contractors could lose public sector tenders if they don’t enforce anti-slavery measures
According to Construction News, “contractors could lose out on public sector tenders if they fail to take measures to ensure their supply chain is free of companies engaged in modern slavery practices.
A leading construction lawyer has warned that growing numbers of clients are likely to include questions on slavery in tender documents as the issue has come into focus following the passing of the Modern Slavery Act.
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What is a Board for Anyway?
The English model of corporate governance is imitated to varying degrees throughout the world and certainly sets a benchmark by which other systems are judged, even when they are strikingly different. Strangely, we still a surprising amount of time helping board members across many organisations to consider why they are there and deciding what their focus should be. Here’s a quick introduction to get new directors out of the blocks.
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Precis: Core Values for 21st Century Business Success
Commissioned for The Corporate Report by Professor Judge Mervyn E King, SC, this article speaks about the threats to business survival in the 21st Century, not only from the megatrends we are all familiar with but also from the unsustainable business models still being perpetuated by big and small corporations globally.
read moreLeadership Expert Featured Leader – Alison Vidotto
As part of my Women in Leadership series, I am absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to feature a champion in every sense, Alison Vidotto, CEO Vidotto Group, Founder, Australian Charity for the Children of Vietnam (ACCV).
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Mervyn King on the Challenges Faced by NHS Boards
We highly recommend this video to anybody interested in governance, quality and risk in the NHS. Judge Mervyn King, a long-time friend of the late Nelson Mandela, speaks with deep commitment about the responsibilities of directors in the NHS, and the courage required to take difficult decisions in times of budgetary constraint.
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Cyber-security and the Board
Cyber-security is an issue for most individuals and all sizes of organisation, and within organisations it is now generally accepted that it should be a board-level matter, and not one for the IT department to tackle alone.
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Succession Planning for your Board of Directors
Board succession planning is less about the proverbial “bus test” and more about maintaining a fully capable, competent, and functioning board that is equipped with the necessary skills, experience, independence and diversity of thought to properly discharge the duties of a board. This holds true in whichever sector the board is operating. There is very good guidance available from organisations such as the ICSA and the IoD.
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Are you a General Counsel and also Company Secretary?
Private companies do not have to appoint a secretary unless their articles of association require them to, although larger private companies would often choose to appoint one. A public limited company must have a secretary.
If you have been formally appointed company secretary, duly registered at Companies House, even if not on the board of directors in your role as general counsel, you are an officer of the company under the Companies Act. As an officer of the company the secretary can be criminally liable for defaults committed by the company.
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