Tag: Simon Webber
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SDR is governance, with a sustainability label.
The FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (”SDR”) regime has brought rigour to an area which was too loose for too long. But read the FCA’s rules and guidance and a bigger picture emerges. SDR is a detailed articulation of the FCA’s expectation of governance in general.
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Worry About Creativity, Not Compliance.
Financial services aren’t some state of nature, to which we’ve decided to apply a few harm-limiting commandments (”thou shalt not trade on thy neighbour’s inside information”). It’s a constructed environment. Regulation is more like a board game, where the rules create the very game they regulate. Without the rules of chess, there is no chess.…
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Focusing on Progress.
Change is always happening. It is either happening to you, or it is something you take charge of. Most organisations have plenty of ideas, even plenty of ambition. What they lack is focus. Plans drift, priorities blur, and the urgent edges out the important. The result is motion without progress.
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Empowering Governance.
Governance shouldn’t slow you down; it should give you the confidence to go further and faster. To many, governance sounds like process and paperwork. In practice, it’s what turns uncertainty into conviction, and conviction into action. When investors, regulators and partners see sound governance, they lean in. They fund, approve, authorise, and collaborate.
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Mastering Complexity.
Complexity can’t be beaten, but it can be mastered. The organisations that thrive aren’t those that try to make the world seem simpler, they’re the ones that make sense of the world as it is, and move decisively within it.
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Climate & Ecology Thoughts: “Art in the Time of Ecological Disruption” 2021.
The role of art in being a vector for change in our relationship to nature, landscape and the environment, for offering opportunities for thinking, being and becoming otherwise.
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Climate & Ecology Thoughts: “Supercharge Me, Net Zero Faster” 2022.
Supercharge Me is ambitious and pragmatic, it urges specific actions and is optimistic about achieving them. Unfortunately, it was written for a different age.
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Strategy is a Story About Mission.
Communicating a strategy isn’t a newscast, it’s a rallying cry. Sharing the strategy should be aimed at reinforcing the culture.
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Climate & Ecology Thoughts: “Hyperobjects” 2013.
Hyperobjects, by Timothy Morton, gives us a powerful way to reimagine some of our most pressing problems, especially global warming and our relationship with nature.
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Funding UK Climate Tech: Problems and Solutions.
There’s plenty of capital and there are plenty of projects but the pipeline between the two is inefficient and ineffective; the plumbing’s broken.
