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Enhancing Board Effectiveness: A Layered Approach to Governance
You may have noticed a few changes to our look and feel over the past few months at Watson – we’
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Hiring, evaluating, compensating and managing CEO transition is arguably the board’s most important area of responsibility. Ironically, experienced board
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The chair of a Crown corporation feels like the CEO controls and limits information going to the board and is
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Discussions of purpose, stakeholder capitalism, social license, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) are front and centre on corporate boardroom
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These are unusual times for everybody. As the pandemic unfolds and deeply impacts peoples’ lives and the economy, leadership is
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“The best strategies are born from management’s analysis and creativity, coupled with the board’s incisive questioning and probing.
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Whenever people are together, they create a culture for how they interact, whether deliberately or unconsciously. Culture can be subtle
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The current state of the world has put CEO succession in sharp focus (more on that here). At the same
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World Economic Forum, Davos Manifesto 2020: “The purpose of a company is to engage all its stakeholders in shared and sustained
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