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2) A first must conduct its business with due skill, care and diligence.
Given the crucial role of the chief executive, the standard of due skill, care and diligence is more demanding than for other employees.
So that a surgical operation be conceived and performed with due skill and care, the price to be paid therefor does not depend upon the result.
Barclays boss Jes Staley did not act with "due skill, care and diligence" when he tried to unmask a whistleblower in 2016, UK regulators declared as they announced the £642,430 fine.
In absence of express agreement, the surgeon, who brings to such a service due skill and care, earns the reasonable and customary price therefor, whether the outcome be beneficial to the patient or the reverse.
Cummings, who retired in January 2009 following the Lloyds rescue after a career that began at Bank of Scotland when he was just 18, was found to have failed to "exercise due skill, care and diligence" in running the corporate banking division and failed to manage "high value transactions" as they showed signed of stress as the banking crisis took hold.
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i thought due to skill.
Which factors were important to the success, and which weren't? Was the success due to skill, or just luck?
Experts offer various reasons: a lack of job opportunities due to skill or language challenges, the influence of business-owning peers or even a risk-taking spirit.
They believed this was due to skill, not luck, making them too sanguine about their ability to ride out the crisis.A further problem with optimism is thus that it is pro-cyclical.
Every study in the book ends with the same conclusion; while a handful of active managers beat their benchmarks due to skill, it wasn't by much, and most didn't sustain that benchmark-beating performance for long.
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