Moaning millennials let down their generation on August 22, 2016The barbed office farewell that goes viral is now so commonplace there seems to be room for a sub-genre: the barbed office farewell by audit trainees at the big professional services firms. The latest comes from Oliver Alcock, a Durham University graduate and former trainee auditor at PwC, who two months ago spent his last […]
Sack non-executive directors to force investors to do their job on May 23, 2016Time is up for non-executive directors. Through successive corporate crises and systemic catastrophes, despite – and in part because of – layers of codes and regulations, independent board members have failed to do the impossible job handed to them by complacent fund managers. Here is the charge sheet. Executive recklessness: still untamed. Executive enterprise: often […]