The EU Commission is about to debate proposals that would force corporate boards to reserve 40% of their seats for women (click here for the story). Earlier this month, I posted about a new study which found that gender diversity is good for corporate performance. This study implies that it is in a company's interest to have women on boards and that quotas are unnecessary. Nevertheless, quotas are becoming increasingly common in the EU.
Michael Aldous and I had our book The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry published a few weeks ago. You can find out more about it and buy it at Cambridge University Press's website . It is also available at Amazon , Waterstones , and Barnes & Noble . The CEO has already been reviewed in The Sunday Times , The Observer and Financial Times .