Tag Archives: PwC

How best to sack the CEO after a crisis

With the operational and reputational crisis at Boeing continuing to escalate, CEO Dave Calhoun has finally announced he will step down, along with the Board chairman and the head of their passenger plane division. While Calhoun is just the latest CEO … Continue reading

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No Ned, Reputational risk is not “pseudoscientific nonsense”.

Why would anyone argue that “reputation risk is rot” or assert that “reputational crises rarely have an impact on the bottom-line”? It’s a question worth asking after the latest issue of the conservative online magazine The Critic, where regular columnist “Ned” … Continue reading

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Why you need to encourage dissenters and doubters

A scathing assessment of management failure at disgraced PwC exposed the company’s “whatever it takes” approach, which led to partners turning a blind eye to bad behaviour in pursuit of profit. While that judgement dominated the headlines, of special interest to … Continue reading

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