On Tuesday I attended an event that felt very significant. It was the first AGM of Riversimple, an eco-car company I am involved with. We are, in our humble way, trying to re-invent the auto industry. You can learn more about Riversimple here. We have been working on our project for many years but only […]
A group of us gathered at the Greenhouse Hotel in Bournemouth on Tuesday evening to explore the question “How to rebuild trust in business”. This was highly topical, given the recent corporate scandals (the banks, the pharmaceutical companies, the media hacking saga among others) and that the Chief Executive Officer of security firm G4S had […]
I have been thinking about trust a lot recently. And the more I think about it, the more I see it woven into the fabric of our lives. I see it when I let my 5 year old son play in the garden with his friends, trusting they won’t hurt themselves (or the plants) too […]
Here’s a link to an interesting article in the New Statesman bout a well-known business trust, the Guardian newspaper.it recounts how powerful Alan Rusbrudger, editor of the Guardian, has become very powerful. He sits on the board not only of the newspaper but also of the parent company and of the trust itself (the ultimate […]