Being inquisitive and open, reflecting on ideas and exploring hinterlands to challenge our own present understanding.

Jan 3, 20211 min read

Decision-making is led by emotion

What is our investment strategy for 2021? How shall we communicate this difficult message to our customers? What shall I have for dinner?...

Jan 2, 20211 min read

Ticking the box, it’s a choice

Governance has become codified. This makes sense of course, because it helps organisations to understand what’s required of them. But...

Dec 31, 20201 min read

Rising mental health illness; a link with poor governance

In the UK alone in 2018/19 mental health related illness accounted for 17.5 million (54%) of all working days lost due to ill health....

Dec 30, 20201 min read

Governance is not really about rules

Last year in the UK, 400 million GBP of fines and sanctions were issued to organisations as a result of corporate governance failings....

Dec 1, 20204 min read

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DRIVES GOOD GOVERNANCE

The emotional intelligence of the leaders within our organisations has a significant influence over the ethical culture that exists. If...

Nov 6, 20206 min read

GOVERNANCE: IT NEEDS RE-HUMANISING

If organisations are just a group of people gathered together around a common purpose; why has corporate governance drifted so far away...

Oct 28, 20202 min read

ORGANISATIONS: PLAYGROUNDS FOR WOULD-BE MEERKATS

Let's be clear. Organisations are nothing more that a collection of human beings gathered together. If we're lucky, they gather around a...

Oct 9, 20204 min read

MOSSES TEACH US ABOUT COLLABORATION

We are told within most capitalistic models that being competitive is important for success. But what if that’s just a misnomer. What if...

Oct 6, 20203 min read

GUERNSEY, GOVERNANCE AND OVERTON'S WINDOW

If we wish to make things better, here, in Guernsey and anywhere else, to be honest. If we want to improve the way we do things, we can't...

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