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Mark Goyder

Email : mark@tomorrowscompany.com

Role : Founder Director

Organization : Tomorrow's Company

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Remuneration rant

posted by Mark Goyder on July 28, 2008

Last Monday Lucy Kellaway in the FT did a provocative column criticising governor of the Bank of England for not taking his pay rise.

He’s made a mistake said Lucy. Capitalism is all about money, not self-denial.

Hence my response.

Tag(s): ExecutivePay , Remuneration

Shades of mediocrity

posted by Mark Goyder on July 3, 2008

Brad Gilbert, top tennis coach has just left his job teaching British tennis players. He gave his first interview on BBC TV during Wimbledon fortnight. He talked about the emotional elements of the job, the intensity of his commitment, and how much he had enjoyed it.

All of which was completely undermined by the huge pair of shades that covered his eyes and half his face.

He is not alone.

Why is it that so many CEOs seem to hide beneath the powerpoint?

What is the training school that teaches them to banish from their speeches any element of connection with the audience?

Why are so many only able to communicate on the basis of a speech prepared earlier?

Issue(s): Embedding Values , Tomorrow's Global Leaders , How to be a Force for Good company

Tag(s): How to communicate

Sixteen Questions from the Cadbury takeover

posted by Mark Goyder on January 21, 2010

So many questions arise from this takeover. Some of them are raised by Will Hutton and Philip Blond in today’s FT. But while Hutton and Blond (rightly) worry about the UK national interest, the outcome actually appears to make little sense in terms of the self interest of most of the people involved.

Even if you accept that the stock market should be left to get on with the business of creating long term shareholder value, here are questions that the major participants in that system need to answer.

They are all summarised in one key question: If we accept that an efficient capitalism needs effective stewardship, why are the implications of stewardship ignored in a takeover situation?

Tomorrow’s Company is now creating a forum which will, among other things, be examining these questions...

Issue(s): Tomorrow's Owners

Tag(s): Cadbury , Governance , Stewardship

Stewardship and football

posted by Mark Goyder on August 20, 2009

Look at any well-run private or family business. You find a close alignment between the owners of its shares and the board and the senior people running the business.

There are vigorous conversations going on in which the owners challenge the managers about past decisions and future directions.

Views differ, but there is a shared commitment to the long term success of enterprise. In these companies accountability works and so do incentives...

Issue(s): Responsible Investment

Tag(s): Ownership , Premiership , Stewardship

Stewardship Lessons from News Corp (part two)

posted by Mark Goyder on July 22, 2011

The radio was on in every room as my wife and I installed ourselves in our new home yesterday. I was moving house as the select committee interview of Rupert Murdoch and his son James unfolded.

Apart from the foam pie commentators today are concentrating on who knew what when.

Most of them are missing the two main points which screamed out from the hearing, especially in the testimony of Rupert Murdoch.

As leader and manager it is your business to know how people are behaving in your business. Even when all is going well. It is your business to check. And when you get clear warnings that things are going wrong, it is your business to investigate. If you delegate that to others you are abdicating your leadership. And if people don’t of their own accord tell you when things are going wrong, you have set the wrong tone.

Issue(s): Tomorrow's Stewardship , Why Stewardship Matters , Stewardship Campaign

Tag(s): News Corp , Stewardship , Stewardship Campaign , Why Stewardship Matters

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