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Strategic Foresight in the Boardroom

April 6, 2021
by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

Becoming a company director today involves the assumption of onerous responsibilities at a time of uncertainty and multiple challenges. Directors and boards can sometimes be subject to forces beyond their control. Those whose...

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Critical Decisions and Existential Choices for Future Strategic Direction

February 26, 2021
by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

The future of boards and business and that of the economic, social and natural contexts within which they and corporate stakeholders operate are inter-related. Critical board decisions this decade will determine the prospects of...

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Reviewing and Rethinking Board and Corporate Leadership

February 5, 2021
by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

Leadership is required and can be developed and provided in a variety of situations and circumstances. Community, corporate and team leadership and business, social, political, scientific, intellectual, moral, thought and other...

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Reviewing and Rethinking Board and Corporate Leadership

January 21, 2021
by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

Leadership is required and can be developed and provided in a variety of situations and circumstances. Community, corporate and team leadership and business, social, political, scientific, intellectual, moral, thought and other...

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Refreshing Directorship and Corporate Direction for a New Era

January 8, 2021
by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

2020 was a frustrating year for many directors used to providing strategic direction and then monitoring and reporting on progress made with the goals and objectives they had set. Proactive directors who were intent on the...

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COVID-19: Impacts, Responses and the Implications for Productivity

December 3, 2020
by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

Covid-19 related lockdowns, restrictions and economic slowdowns and/or recessions have resulted in new ways of working and operating and changes of business model and priorities. What are their impacts on overall and corporate...

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Addressing the Negative Impacts of some Corporate Boards

November 15, 2020
by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

Speeches and publications regularly stress the importance of responsible board leadership, effective corporate governance and clear strategic direction. They advocate various ways of improving the contribution of corporate boards...

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Reviewing the Role of Directors within Corporate Governance

October 5, 2020
by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

The impacts, fall-out and continuing consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic have given reviews of board performance an added urgency. For many companies they are now a necessity rather than a periodic governance checklist...

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Board Leadership of Adaptation and Transition

September 5, 2020
by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

Building a business and sustaining success have always been a challenge. They often require continual vigilance and periodic reinvention. Complacency in the boardroom can lead to stagnation, decline and liquidation. Directors...

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Implications of COVID-19 for Directors and Boards

August 5, 2020
by Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

The uncertainties concerning the future of the COVID-19 virus, the form and duration of Government responses, differing paths out of lockdowns and the nature of any ‘new normal’ that might emerge have multiple...

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Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas

Prof. (Dr) Colin Coulson-Thomas, President of the Institute of Management Services and Director-General of IOD India for UK and Europe operations. He has advised directors and boards in over 40 countries.

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