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“Forget the past – the future will give you…
It was about this time last year that I published my signature report, Boards of the Future, with great enthusiasm and hope. The result of years of reflection and, more recently, conversations with more than a hundred...

Boards of the Future: why the Board of the…
This week, it was a real honour to launch a project that I’ve been working on since 2017 - Boards of the Future: why the Board of the Future should be the Board of today – and how to build it. It is my signature...

Boards of the Future: why the Board of the…
The MBS Group is delighted to present Boards of the Future, a first-of-its kind piece of thought leadership challenging businesses to think differently about their non-executive board. The publication, Boards of the...

Should the boards of the future be the boards…
Six months ago, I wrote a column to throw out a challenge to Chairs to think carefully about where their next board members should come from. Despite the growing purchasing power of younger people and the rapid pace of...

FTSE Boards can prepare for the future by adding…
For the past two years I have been privileged to be invited to the venture capital company LocalGlobe’s annual showcase, where the day is spent listening to 15-minute overviews given by the CEOs of companies that...

The next digital frontier: equipping Boards with the skills…
Last year, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sold an NFT of his first-ever tweet (“just setting up my twittr”) for $2.9m. Twelve months on, and this particular NFT has not proved the best investment for the Iranian-born...

Are Boards changing? An in-depth analysis of appointments, changes…
The MBS Group is delighted to present its second edition of the Boards of the Future series, Are Boards changing? An in-depth analysis of appointments, changes and exits to FTSE 350 Boards in 2021 Following on from...

Q&A: Incoming BFC chair Stephanie Phair on Farfetch, fashion…
I first met Stephanie just after she had returned to the UK following ten years ensconced in the New York fashion world. She had by that point risen rapidly, beginning at a PR startup before a role at Issey Miyake and...

AI: A serious ethical challenge for consumer businesses
In his Reith lectures on artificial intelligence, Professor Stuart Russell read an extract from Alan Turing’s 1950 essay on computer machinery. “Once the machine thinking method had started,” he read, “it would...