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Meet our Board Members
According to all the headlines, trust in leadership is eroding. In fact, we see it too – in boardrooms, and in the quiet disillusionment of people who expected more from those at the top. Executives overwhelmed by information overload. Leaders whose private lives are fracturing under professional pressure. Organizations making decisions that serve shareholders but not society.
We spend enormous energy debating Corporate Governance frameworks, codes, and compliance. But I've come to believe we're addressing the symptom, not the cause.
Strong corporate governance can only be sustained by leaders who govern themselves well first.
That's the idea at the heart of Personal Governance – a concept that has been close to my heart over for many years. It's not a “wellness program” or a soft alternative to hard governance. It's a strategic and deeply practical framework built around seven principles: having a personal mission, acting with ethical clarity, practicing honest self-reflection, managing stress wisely, committing to continuous development, nurturing genuine interests beyond work, and protecting your reputation.
None of this is new in spirit. Plato argued that self-governance was a precondition for exercising power over others. That idea is as relevant now as it was then.
What's changed is the context. The stakes for leaders have never been higher, or more visible.
In the second part of our series, we explore the principle of “Life Plan and Goals”. While we address the individual manager, the concepts and tools can also support the development of peers, our private entourage, our direct reports, and teams. A Life Plan takes all areas of our lives into account in a meaningful and holistic way, including our social environment and the plans of our closest entourage, without automatically allowing their expectations to become our own.
I invite you to dive deeper here.
Fredy Hausammann, Chair, The Amrop Partnership