Collaboration and innovation in infrastructure procurement

event

Socia held a breakfast meeting in November looking at the opportunities for increased collaboration and innovation in large infrastructure projects. Miles Ashley (Programme Director for Crossrail and Stations at London Underground) kicked off the discussion with his...

Why Board evaluation matters

article, blog

Alex and David were recently asked to write an article for the Institute of Leadership and Management’s on-line Insights journal. The looked not only at the value of evaluation for FTSE listed Boards (which is an FRC requirement) but also at Boards in the public...

More questions than answers…

blog

To celebrate their 20th anniversary Strategy + Business magazine recently published a catalogue of the most influential business ideas throughout history. Their editors and various leading thinkers came up with 400 or so major concepts and leadership principles. This...

Leadership briefing: the challenges facing non-plc Boards

event

The annual Socia leadership briefing in March this year brought together a panel of experts to discuss the particular challenges of working on non-plc Boards. Read our governance magazine article based on discussions and conclusions from the panel.

Being right doesn’t count

blog

Being right doesn’t count… Sometimes the most important lessons are the easiest to state but the hardest to learn. Thirty years ago I was just starting my first job as a graduate engineer at what was then the biggest chemical works in Europe at ICI on Teesside. Armed...

One evaluation framework for all Boards?

published articles

After our successful Socia event in March where a panel debated the importance of evaluation in order to improve Board performance, Governance magazine has published an article by Alex and David which summarises the main messages from this discussion. The article...

A Bolder Braver Better 2015

article

The space between Christmas and New Year is a great time for reflection and catching up on that pile of reading that has been building up in the ‘Quite Interesting’ section of the to-do list. It’s also traditionally a time for looking forward with a sense of hope and...