Financial managers got it wrong. As a group they confidently expected a “yes” vote in Greece. Hardly a triumph of peering round the corners of the future. They joined the shamed pollsters of the UK’s recent general election, in which all the main poll services failed miserably to predict the result, […]
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Women leaders: could more make an ethical difference?
“Most of our leaders fail” Ronald E Riggio Ph.D Mar 09, 2010 in Cutting-Edge Leadership When it comes to being a CEO of a big corporation more fail than succeed. Estimates of leader incompetence and failure range from one half to two-thirds. The tenure of most CEOs is too close […]
Why Ethical Codes Crash and Burn
By Keith Edmonds, Consultant at Coverdale Organisation Ltd The attentive City audience knew something important was coming. Yet they also expected the usual Bank of England platitudes. Instead Marc Carney who heads up the bank was brutally frank “Capitalism is doomed if ethics vanish” [spacer height=”20px”]Mr Carney told his London […]