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
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