Amanda Blanc

26 days ago

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the sacking of BP chairman Albert Manifold

He says it was unfair. It was Amanda Blanc who pulled the trigger. I look at big corporate culture and the GroupThink of the oversized BP (BP.) board epitomised by Ms Blanc and ask what it says about the company and the share price

826 days ago

Don’t bother going for a senior job at Aviva if you are a white male even if you are the best qualified person on earth

The job of a public company such as Aviva (AV.) is NOT to change society but to deliver the best results for shareholders and that should mean that for every post, especially senior ones, it must hire the most highly qualified person for the job. But that is a message lost on Amanda Blanc, the company’s right on CEO.