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BOARDROOM DIALOGUE
We asked a number of CEOs, boardroom advisers and leading business figures for their views on what they feel
are the most important topics for businesses to address based on their experiences as well as their personal
views around CEOs’ challenges and successes. We feature just three of them here – Don Strickland, Noreena
Hertz and Hamish Taylor. We hope you find their comments interesting and illuminating.
Dissenting Views Noreena Hertz is a visionary Yet a vast body of research now points
can make us economist, strategist, best-selling to the import of contemplating diverse,
Smarter Decision- author and thinker whose economic dissenting views. Not just in terms of
Makers predictions have consistently been making us more rounded individuals
accurate. She advises some of the but in terms of making us smarter
Noreena Hertz world’s top CEOs on economic, decision-makers.
geopolitical and technological Dissent, it turns out, has a significant
trends and business decisions. Most value.
recently she has been appointed
ITV’s new economics editor. When group members are actively
encouraged to openly express
We are drawn to those who echo what divergent opinions they not only share
it is we already believe. We get a more information, they consider it
dopamine rush when we are presented more systematically and in a more
with confirming data similar to what balanced and less biased way. When
we get when we eat chocolate or fall in people engage with those with
love. On Facebook we defriend those different opinions and views from their
with different political views to our own they become much more capable
own. On Twitter we follow people just of properly interrogating critical
like us. assumptions and identifying creative
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