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Who on your board can tell you whether the AI roadmap is serving the business or just the momentum?
AI proposals are capital allocation decisions. Three answers a board should be able to give before it approves one....
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How does your succession plan handle roles that have never existed before?
Why boards fail when appointing to new roles such as Head of AI, and four questions to answer before appointing anyone to a role nobody has held....
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What are the responsibilities of a non-executive director in a private company?
A private company NED carries the same legal duties as an executive director. What those duties are, what to check before joining a board, and what to do once you are on it....
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How much time does the NED role take?
Adverts quote days a month, but NED work rarely fits neat days. A practical guide to the planned, preparation and unplanned time the role really takes....
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As Managing Director for South East Asia, I built Henkel Adhesives from a standing start to c.£30m across four markets: Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. The experience taught me more about what boards should focus on, and what they get wrong, than any strategy framework or governance training ever could. Here’s what I learned....
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AI decisions boards are getting wrong
Most boards are approaching AI the wrong way. Not because they’re ignoring it. Quite the opposite. Boards are holding AI strategy sessions, commissioning vendor reports, and adding “AI oversight” to committee charters. The problem: they’re treating AI as a governance topic when it should be a commercial opportunity. Here’s what boards are getting wrong, and...
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What PE investors expect boards to answer
The gap between what PE Operating Partners expect boards to answer and what most boards are prepared to discuss is larger than people think. Here’s what PE wants to hear, and why most boards struggle to deliver clear answers. The questions PE always asks 1. WHAT’S THE PATH TO 2.5X VALUE IN 3-4 YEARS? PE...
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