Le Fil de l’épée
Charles de Gaulle’s masterpiece on leadership — and himself
by Nicholas Dungan
In the concise canon of genuinely ingenious books on leadership — of which Machiavelli’s The Prince is perhaps the most celebrated and the most cited — Charles de Gaulle’s Le Fil de l’épée [The Edge of the Sword[1]] can rightly claim pride of place.… Read the rest
The Sense of Reality
The Sense of Reality
Isaiah Berlin brings a philosophical perspective to practical leadership
by Nicholas Dungan
The intellectual production of Sir Isaiah Berlin constitutes so vast and so varied an œuvre that it is not surprising to find, in the compilation of discrete writings gathered together in the book entitled The Sense of Reality, a wide diversity of subjects and ideas.… Read the rest
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Les Echos
23 August 2022
This comment article by the CEO of CogitoPraxis, Nicholas Dungan, published in the leading French business daily Les Echos, makes the case for a 360º conception of corporate citizenship, affirming the conviction that corporate ciitzenship extends beyond ESG, CSR and purpose and warning that companies' propensity to silo undermines their ability to realise the 360º required.… Read the rest
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The Economist
25 June 2022
In a letter published in The Economist, Nicholas Dungan, CEO of CogitoPraxis, defends Mark Carney, Larry Fink and Jamie Dimon from implications of woke-ism by the newspaper's Schumpeter columnist and argues that, like Hubert Joly in his book The Heart of Business, their shift towards corporate citizenship puts them on the right side of history.… Read the rest
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Financial Times
10 June 2022
Here, in a letter published by the Financial Times, the CEO of CogitoPraxis, Nicholas Dungan, supports the view of Anne Simpson, the former head of sustainability at the Calpers pension fund, that 'We need a broader, human-centred approach' to ESG — and stipulates that corporate citizenship constitutes that approach.… Read the rest
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