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The great unravelling

Dear friends (those of you who have signed up to this blog are almost inevitably that!), it’s been a while and I realise that I have broken the cardinal rule of blogging… that is regular, predictable and interesting pieces of short, concise and opinion filled content! Today I wanted to reference an extraordinary speech made by Sir Christopher Meyer at an excellent networking event in October. Sir Christopher talked extremely […]

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Passive adoption of regulatory change – the dangers of outsourcing your ‘conscience’ to the compliance function

Many of you will have read Daniel Kahneman’s excellent book, ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ (attached link for a TED summary), or perhaps some of the other behavioural economics books such as ‘Nudge’ by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. Some of you will also have read ‘The Social Animal’ by David Brooks. Perhaps you will also be aware of Rory Sutherland and his superb TED talks (see attached for my favourite) […]

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