Some statistics from the United States of America – courtesy of Bloomberg Business Week: 64 per cent of directors on the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index have served ten to fifteen years on a board of directors.
History is continuously in the making, but never has history been dictated so boldly from the very first days of a calendar year. Trumpism and Brexit will have a lasting impact on the shape of the world to come. Economies and society are bound to be grossly and badly affected.
There is more than ample evidence that boards of directors in Malta are steadily, although quietly, changing. A number of factors have contributed to this.
Values are the core of the company’s culture. They are guidelines which people need to ingrain and follow. Needless to say, they are of little value if they are not understood or considered as important by the leaders of the company.
“New year, new me!” We hear that phrase countless times at the start of the year. And many of us are already enthusiastically embracing our new year resolutions.
Education filters into culture and civil behaviour. It influences directly the way we think, decide and act.
