Category Archives: Governance

20 (yes 20) ways a company secretary can help deliver a successful ethics policy. Or, ‘It’s not only CEOs who don’t sleep at night!’

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The Leadership Development Programme*, under the guidance of Ashridge Business School, recently discussed how company secretaries can support the  delivery of a successful  ethics policy – and, in so doing, establish their credibility as the ‘go to’ expert on governance issues. It is important to have a simple definition of ethical behaviour which resonates with work colleagues,

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TalkTalk, Thomas Cook and trust

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There is a common theme to two of last week’s tales of corporate woe – the cyber hack at TalkTalk, and the publication of the independent report into the Thomas Cook tragedy, when two children died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a defective boiler while on holiday in Corfu in 2006. In the TalkTalk incident,

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Governance leadership – reflections on Enron, Toshiba and VW

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As governance leaders, we need to understand what goes wrong inside organisations to have a chance of preventing a recurrence.  The fact that corporate crises – such as Toyota and VW – continue to happen does not take away from the need to learn the lessons.  In fact, it increases the urgency of the challenge.  And

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