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Signposting recent articles of interest from around the web

Category: Role of the board, All, Strategy and Planning

The idea that boards have to operate in a VUCA world (short for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) has been around for so long that it has lost its impact.

Category: All, Policy

The context for this article is Aotearoa New Zealand but the underlying issues are relevant anywhere.

Category: Strategy and Planning, Thinking and learning

In the final of this series on mental models and decision making, we discuss the use of models.

Category: Covid19, All

This is an update of a think piece provided to a client early in the Covid pandemic. It was written with a non-profit focus but much of it is more widely useful.

Category: Board CEO Relationship, All

Organisations become less effective—sometimes spectacularly so—during the time it takes to make the transition from an outgoing chief executive to a new one.

Category: Role of the board, premium

Few months—or even weeks—go by without some sort of corporate crisis that underlines the absence of, and the need for, good governance. No matter where these crises occur, they almost always offer lessons for other entities and for individuals with govern

Category: Role of the board, Ownership and accountability, premium

Boards and directors are increasingly concerned about the levels of accountability being placed on them, with a growing regime of legislation and regulation to take heed of. Indeed, boards should be accountable for both performance and conformance, but ge

Category: All, Risk, premium

No organisation is exempt from crisis (whether self-inflicted or beyond its control) and bad news travels fast—whether or not it is accurate. If, for example, warning signs have gone unheeded, corporate culture is a root cause, or the response was simply