Hallelujah

“A directors’ job is to work within the spirit of the law as well as complying with the law.  The spirit encapsulates transparency, integrity, accountability and independence (of thought)”

Many shareholders of Nuplex Industries Limited and the fallen Lombard Finance and Investment Limited may have yelled ‘Hallelujah’ late last month even though their bank balances had either suffered or could suffer from the action of a few of the companies directors. 

Blog post: Hallelujah

Who will guard the guards?

Who is watching over boards as boards watch over their management? Of course in theory boards are accountable to the shareholders/stakeholders but how can these interested parties gain assurance that board members are doing a good job?

Blog post: Who will guard the guards?

Effectiveness is not a small issue

It’s important to actively do things in governance, rather than just following set habits and routines. For example, knowing about a problem and not doing anything about it is the same, or worse, than not knowing about it in the first place.

Blog post: Effectiveness is not easy to achieve

New structure critical to success

The devolving and reshaping of current structures in initiatives such as the Integrated Family Health Centre and the new Auckland City Governance structure will generate considerable debate and differing views expressed as each initiative is advanced.

Blog post: Collective or Super Governance

Cinderella in the boardroom

There are three key cornerstones of sound governance. Yet they are often like Cinderella; found only in the kitchen or backroom - out-of-sight, not spoken about or unknown. It’s time to bring then to the fore.

Blog post: Transparency – the Cinderella of governance

Oh dear at IHC

Should we be shocked to read about the alleged fraud of $600,000 from the IHC's fundraising activities, as reported in the Sunday Star Times this week? Of course we should, but should we be surprised - I think not.

Once again I find a classic example for my latest blog post.

Never have so few done so much damage to so many.

So Who’s Accountable Now?

Catching up with friends over Christmas led me to thoughts about the plight of many shareholders in this country and a useful topic for my first blog post in Boardroom360.

I hope you enjoy following my various musings on the subjects that I'm passionate about - how businesses and organisations can be infinitely better if the right governance structures and processes could simply allow them to fly.

Blog post: Never have so few done so much damage to so many.