Covid19 is going to remake our society whether we like it or not. It is not sufficient to dislike what may be already underway.
Category: risk
Four For Friday (41)
What links coronavirus, leadership, women on boards, climate change and disinformation? Read this week's links to find out.
Four For Friday (39)
Small data, protecting kids online, metabolite surveillance, and tech nihilism are this week’s picks.
Is your board fit for purpose?
A board’s most important task is to ask regularly if it is itself fit for purpose. That requires, above all, a deep sense of self-awareness and metacognition, a skillset no boards seem to be seeking actively in their search for new directors.
Governance and the small private company
Small businesses need good governance for financial and social sustainability, but are not always able or willing to build governance capacity or brook independent challenge.
The importance of being prepared redux
The theme "be prepared" recurs in so many areas in life, I keep expecting to see it in action. And every once in a while there are some stellar examples of preparation winning the day even if at great cost to the other side that believes in "winging it".
Delivering and Demanding Accountabilty: A Manifesto for 2019
The intent does not matter, the impact does. Between intent and impact lies accountability.
My 2018 in books
I pick social commentary, business books, quirky books on popularity, a business novel and poetry. Most are not on popular lists. Which is why this list is worth a read.
AI: to implement or not to implement
The cost of implementing some form of AI today is minuscule compared to the opportunity cost of inaction. After all not implementing AI today will not defer the future.
Protest as a strategic lever
Protest is a strategic lever which leaders ignore at their peril. And it is here to stay.
