It’s hard to imagine a time when the concept of ‘a job’ has ever gone through so much revolutionary change. Back in the early 1900s, people campaigned and worked hard to get what was a 48hour standard working week – scaled back to 40 hours. And so by the 1940s, we had a legal precedent set for us to work …

There are two things I get asked a lot by CEOs and other senior business leaders. “What exactly is innovation?” And: “How can you help me or my company get good at it?” Now, we could spend a lot of time debating what innovation actually is. Arguably, this might have been one of human kind’s greatest early debates – I …

For a long time I have held the belief that innovation should be a fixed item on the Board Agenda.  With a mandate to drive strategy and manage risk, innovation seems to sit in the cross-hairs of the Board’s Governance role.  Especially given it is essentially a form of investment risk. So in association with Appoint Better Boards, we recently hosted at …