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Changes in 2026: From Assurance to Evidence
Global Governance and Accountability Trends
Mar 1
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Richard Winfield
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The Case Against the Board of Peace
Why Structure, Not Personality, Determines Legitimacy
Jan 23
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Richard Winfield
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Carillion and the Stability Trap
How growth incentives, diffused authority, and reassurance systems combined to make collapse rational
Jan 10
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Richard Winfield
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The Machinery of Reassurance
How hybrid authority, filtered information, and legal risk management combined to make denial a stable organisational state
Jan 9
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Richard Winfield
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Prestige as Governance
How a board becomes a signalling device, and loses the ability to know what it is approving
Jan 9
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Richard Winfield
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When Boards Are Negligent: Governance Failure and the Theranos Collapse
Executive Summary
Jan 9
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Richard Winfield
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Profit Over Planes
How Governance Failures Reshaped Boeing’s Culture
Jan 7
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Richard Winfield
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If Thames Water has failed, where is the fault?
A case study in how incentives beat intentions.
Nov 7, 2025
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Richard Winfield
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Is ‘Comply or Explain’ Obsolete?
As boards evolve, could governance move from reassurance to adaptability?
Oct 29, 2025
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Richard Winfield
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Curiosity — The One Skill That Could Have Saved the Post Office
A reminder that challenge, not compliance, defines governance.
Oct 28, 2025
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Richard Winfield
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The Anatomy of Denial:
How Britain’s Institutions Let the Post Office Rot from Within
Oct 23, 2025
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Richard Winfield
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Wilful Blindness
Understanding the danger of ignoring uncomfortable truths
Oct 21, 2025
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Richard Winfield
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