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We can move away from recent corporate moral disasters. When I left the military (A LONG time ago now...) I was immediately struck with how little emphasis was placed on values, standards, and in simple terms, the genuine lived expectation to do the right thing, across the corporate world. I am very aware in my current role that a genuine passion to do the right thing often exists in small and scale up businesses, but tends to die off once 'corporate' processes, politics and pressures kick in. Long ago I swore an oath to essentially do the right thing and my professional training alongside my day to day responsibilities were heavy on doing the right thing and having the moral courage to do that, even when, especially when, it's hard to do so. That is an approach I believe could have a powerful impact on the commercial world and could be built into the training of critical professionals such as lawyers, accountants and business leaders. #corporategovernance #leadershipdevelopment #servantleadership #recruitment #retention
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In a reflective mood on my way to an event this morning. 1. SLAPPs. Think Michelle Mone, Nadhim Zahawi 2. NDA abuse. Think MeToo, Weinstein, Zelda Perkins 3. Post Office. Think over a decade of wrongful prosecutions In each example, lawyers and the legal system were an instrument of this wrongdoing. Are these three unconnected phenomena? Or did something go wrong in the culture of “how we lawyer” over the past 10-15 years? (I really should credit a friend I met for coffee with recently - but as he’s worked on one of the above I expect he’d prefer I did not…)
