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#WeGatherTheThoughtsTime for a wakeup call
– February 2021Hubris threatens men and women of power … and fascination threatens those around them.
Hubris is the excessiveness, the loss of the sense of reality and the vertigo generated by the exercise of power. On the other hand, fascination is the admiration for a hero, captivation by, and eventual subjection to them. -
#WeGatherTheThoughtsYou shouldn’t be on “mute”
– December 2020There is a 2 out of 3 chance that you will go along with a group that says “yes” when you think “no”, even when the answer is clearly “no”. This famous experiment by psychologist Ash shows that we are ready to go against the evidence in order to conform with the group.
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#WeGatherTheThoughtsCommittee efficiency and board collegiality
– November 2020How do you balance the exercise of power between an efficient committee and a collegial board?
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#WeGatherTheThoughtsThe controlled controller
– October 2020“Statutory auditors must do a better job and must be better controlled”, says the European Commission as it designs a stricter professional framework for audit firms. It also requires that audit committees be more involved in verifying the independence and quality of the audit work. Are audit committees trained for this task and ready to take on this responsibility?
