Blog
28 Nov, 2023
Football clubs & the King’s Speech
23 Oct, 2023
Annual Board Evaluations suggestion
23 Jun, 2023
Post Office Limited bonus scheme
03 Apr, 2023
Boardroom dysfunction warning signs from finance & banking history
24 Mar, 2023
Better corporate governance of AI, ChatGPT & deep learning implementations
24 Jan, 2023
NHS crisis foretold
21 Dec, 2022
2026 World Cup – reform accountability & governance at FIFA?
16 Dec, 2022
FTX collapse exposes a crisis of corporate governance inside the boardrooms of their investors too
29 Oct, 2022
Jeremy Hunt & the official NHS maintenance backlog ERIC
21 Oct, 2022
Potemkin exercise in independent scrutiny at UK water & sewer companies
12 Jul, 2022
Keeping non-executive directors independent
20 Jun, 2022
What is the Eskimo-Aleut word for ESG?
15 May, 2022
Shadow boards & Football
07 Apr, 2022
Disaster in the Boardroom Questions and Answers
16 Oct, 2021
SEC Proxy Voting records legislation for mutual funds & ETFs news
08 Sep, 2021
When ERIC met Rishi
07 Aug, 2021
Crouch Report on football governance – advance leak of draft proposals
10 Jul, 2021
Hard working NEDs in NHS ill-served by furore over appointment practices of ex-Secretary of State for Health
29 May, 2021
Governance 21st birthday comments
22 Apr, 2021
Mooted Super League breakaway shines light on poor governance in UK football
26 Mar, 2021
Kwasi Kwarteng White Paper proposals examined
22 Mar, 2021
Making The Exceptional Happen
09 Mar, 2021
Significant, possibly, insurmountable corporate governance challenges face the UK charities sector
04 Mar, 2021
Petronius on NHS Reform Proposals
02 Feb, 2021
Clarion call for independent directors to join the governing bodies of our local community organisations
31 Jan, 2021
Making a Difference Book Launch: Questions & Answers
22 Jan, 2021
Governance failings are putting UK universities at risk of collapse
23 Nov, 2020
Football Association Chairman Greg Clarke resigns
23 Nov, 2020
Corporate governance issues in the NHS
23 Nov, 2020
Parties, Fines and Value for Money refunds for fee-paying UK university students
23 Nov, 2020
Football Association ‘Project Big Picture’ fiasco
03 Nov, 2020
Book Launch: The Independent Director in Society Questions and Answers
02 Jun, 2020
Further corporate governance blunders pend at Facebook despite window dressing of Oversight Board
15 Apr, 2020
Eleven Great Corporate Governance Lockdown retro reads
20 Jan, 2020
BlackRock’s Larry Fink takes private jet to Davos to warn of climate risk to investments
25 Nov, 2019
UK Sport to finish outside the corporate governance medals in Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022 & Paris 2024?
15 Oct, 2019
“Stakeholder” activism initiative possibly fatally undermines “healthy environment” commitments
08 Oct, 2019
Office of Students fails reassure over UK University/HE sector finances & corporate governance
13 Aug, 2019
Human NEDs to trump A.I. and A.I. Directors in the boardroom?
02 Jul, 2019
FA Board receives red card over England Lioness led football revolution
21 May, 2019
Why do FTSE 250 companies continue to outsource their strategic & corporate governance reality checks to non-executive directors drawn from elsewhere?
14 Apr, 2019
NED sized corporate governance hole in MBA curriculum requires filling now as 20-year time lag between lessons & execution
15 Jan, 2019
Chairmen fret & moan in buzzwords according to Deloitte Report
14 Dec, 2018
What similarities & differences does the Nissan Ghosn scandal reveal between the comparative current states of UK & Japanese corporate governance?
20 Nov, 2018
Six questions all directors should ask themselves today
02 Sep, 2018
Stakeholder advocacy – cosplaying land grab or serious change to the purpose of a corporation?
17 Aug, 2018
Cognitive dissonance over public employee pay is to detriment of Government expertise, policy delivery & staff motivation
15 Jul, 2018
New report finds government departmental boards held back by bad management of & poor leadership by Secretaries of State (sub-optimal corporate governance undermines policy delivery)
01 Jun, 2018
Mandatory annual report Underboarding Statement required to measure, manage & end overboarding
05 Feb, 2018
Carillion exposes full majesty of the current ‘open the stable door further after the horse has bolted’ FRC corporate governance consultation
21 Dec, 2017
12 Corporate Governance days of Christmas
21 Dec, 2017
Placebo effect FRC corporate governance consultation will at best only offer a homeopathic cure for boardroom ills suggests expert
21 Dec, 2017
Corporate Governance Dunderclass – who are the CEOs with the most supine non-executives or Chairmen
30 Oct, 2017
Richard Greenbury Corporate Governance memorial legislation from the Government is urgently required
30 Oct, 2017
FA Chairman Greg Clarke threatened to resign over corporate governance plans, yet clings on despite serial executive ineptitude
17 Aug, 2017
FA Report Card
24 May, 2017
Gender inequality, secrecy and inaction is the order of the day at the Football Association under newish Chairman Greg Clarke
08 May, 2017
Ongoing sweet FA from Football Association when it comes to corporate governance best practice
02 Mar, 2017
The Independent Director responds to Government Green Paper on Corporate Government Reform
14 Feb, 2017
Diversity leads to fewer scandals and more effective boards
14 Feb, 2017
Possible £30m penalty ahead for Football Association over lack of non-executive directors (expert demands red card for Chairman Clarke over ongoing own goals)
27 Jan, 2017
Avoiding Company Scandals: 8 warning signs of board level pathology
15 Dec, 2016
Five ways Theresa May can reboot and strengthen her green paper on corporate governance
17 Nov, 2016
Gerry’s influence as The Independent Director spans the web
14 Sep, 2016
Global leadership in free trade requires we utilise our free standing army of independent non-executive directors fully
05 Sep, 2016
Let the battle commence
22 Aug, 2016
Are Waterstones turning back the pages of their own success story with a 58% board reduction?
05 Aug, 2016
Balancing gender diversity from the top
17 May, 2016
8 NED best practice steps for BBC Unitary Board proposals (that also protect the future independence of the BBC)
12 May, 2016
Corporate Governance, Reform and the BBC
11 May, 2016
Video: Gerry interviewed by Smarter Networking
04 May, 2016
Activist investors…and how to avoid them!
11 Apr, 2016
10 reasons to consider Private Equity as part of a healthy investment portfolio
04 Apr, 2016
Winning combination of Private Equity & Independent Directors delivers better returns & management (& less scandals)
14 Dec, 2015
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
01 Sep, 2015
Video: what it means to be an independent director
13 Apr, 2015
In pictures: spectacular book launch at the Institute of Directors
10 Apr, 2015
Video: Gerry on CNBC
02 Apr, 2015
Video: The Independent Director book launch at the IoD
04 Mar, 2015