CEOs: 7 reasons why the FRC Code is your unlikely roadmap out of COVID-19, even for SMEs
Simon Sinek is unlikely to shout out "Start with the FRC Code". You won't find a Ted Talk titled "FRC - The Cool Code out of COVID City. Nor will #CorpGov be trending any time soon. J A Sutherland wri...
27 Touko 20206min
Why CEOs should reset their relationship with their lawyers during COVID-19
There is anecdotal evidence that some early stage and rapid growth organisations have decided they "no longer need a General Counsel" relying instead on more junior and potentially more biddable in-ho...
26 Touko 20206min
CEOs: how to have a proper bloody row during COVID-19
I’m noticing an increase in boardroom tension since lockdown. Boardrooms are always full of human drama but, based on calls I ‘m receiving, and what I hear on the Zoomvine, COVID-19 is bringing way mo...
20 Touko 202012min
CEOs: forget recovery. Instead: reframe, reset, relaunch
Everyone is talking about the 'new normal" meaning that "things" will never be the same again and we'll have to bally well get used to it. Yet the same commentators talk of recovery and reopening as i...
19 Touko 20207min
COVID-19 CEOs: "resilience" isn't code for "suck it up"
Here we go again – another crisis another “in-word”. After a previous crisis the word ” engagement” which, by the way, was code for you engaging with us, not the other way around – was all the rage. N...
18 Touko 20209min
Why COVID19CEOs should remember Chilcot's criticism of "sofa style" decision-making
Andrew Hill at the time of the report observed in the Financial Times: “…What does this report tell us? The same old corporate and political story of how an excess of certitude at the top can lead to ...
15 Touko 20207min
COVID-19 crisis: should you oust your narcissistic CEO now?
Nick Cohen’s piece three years ago in The Observer (Jan 5, 2017) was mainly about Mr Trump but, to my mind, it was also one of the best general essays on leadership I have read and remains highly rele...
14 Touko 20206min
Your future: will you be "the CEO" three years from now?
So, if you are “the CEO”: are you likely to be “the CEO” in three years time? if yes, why, and how will you have changed, if at all? if not, will you have jumped or been pushed See the blog vers...
13 Touko 20208min
