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But fund managers rarely receive any help with management. Firms often assume that if you can run money you can run people. That’s wrong

— Helena Morrissey, Baroness Morrissey

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Be thoughtful about how you manage meetings, how you manage your team, how you manage different personalities, cognitive styles and approaches

Independence matters precisely because electoral cycles are short and the temptation for political expediency is constant.

Some skills translate: bringing people with you, creating space for challenge, focusing the team on the signal not the noise

After the financial crisis, it was obvious that groupthink was dangerous. Back then, fewer than one in ten UK board seats were held by women.

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