Customers and other stakeholders may hold a diversity of views on what is excellent and innovative and employ differing criteria for deciding what represents excellence and innovation. These can also evolve over time and as...
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Protecting the Ocean & Securing a Blue Economy: The Role of Blue Finance This week, delegates from around the world meet in Lisbon to discuss and protect the future of the ocean at the UN Ocean Conference. A key...
Our futures and those of many other life forms on our planet are not assured. Unsustainable growth, lifestyles and business activities are adversely affecting the environment and biodiversity, using up scarce natural capital and...
Reviews feature in prescriptive corporate governance codes that must be complied with or adopted on a ‘comply or explain’ basis and those that are voluntary recommendations. Their value, impact and strategic significance can...
This week, we launched The Lexicon of Change at The Nature of Cities Conference. The Lexicon introduces words, paradigms, and concepts for building regenerative, resilient, and sustainable systems. We are co-creating a dictionary...
We need new ways of thinking, being, leading, hiring and promoting to help us innovate.
In addition coping with changing stakeholder requirements and priorities, technological developments, market dynamics, disruptions and crises, contemporary boards face a number of inter-related longer-term challenges. Tactical...
How can business promote the UN Global Goals, and thereby combat hunger while promoting equity, livable cities, and clean oceans? The Meaningful Business 100 offers us a wide range of practices that change lives, cities...
We are at a critical moment in human history. The pre COP 26 UN Climate Change Synthesis Report on Nationally Determined Contributions to achieving Paris Agreement targets suggested these will not be sufficient to contain...
Boards should carry out formal and rigorous annual evaluations of their own performance and that of their committees and individual members. Such reviews are sometimes quickly undertaken to satisfy a governance requirement...