DISCUSSION In the news this week July 9th 2018

Dear Readers,

Here are a few news and feature articles we’ve noticed over the past few days, all of which reflect issues – in corporate governance, sustainability, leadership and artificial intelligence – that Tomorrow’s Company thinks business should seek to address if it is truly to become a force for good in society.

Yours,

The TC team

• Our CEO Norman Pickavance is quoted in this article – The UK’s productivity problem: the curse of the ‘accidental manager’ https://www.ft.com/content/b96ce8f2-5dd9-11e8-ad91-e01af256df68 
• More on productivity: has the rise of the open plan office and its claim of more collaborative working actually hampered productivity? http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/373/1753/20170239.full.pdf
• From the New York Times ‘Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras’ https://nyti.ms/2KWXERS
• Article on the corporate governance structure employed by US streaming giant Netflix, which effectively brings the company’s board much closer to management and creates transparency https://bit.ly/2JdkWhu
• ‘Time to topple the technopoly’ – the tech titans’ transition from hero to villain looks uncannily like the experience of their Gilded Age equivalents: Vanderbilt, Rockerfeller et al. So where’s the 21st century Teddy Roosevelt? https://bit.ly/2JaeLuB
• From The Times: ‘KPMG chairman defends audit of Carillion’ https://bit.ly/2ma94DT 
• Opinion piece in the Philly Enquirer: Corporate boards must evolve to stay relevant. “The biggest challenge facing many board members is adapting and staying ahead of rapid change,” says Raj Gupta https://bit.ly/2KUbJAF