It has been more than twenty years in this difficult endeavour to gather the most lucid reflections from the wisest, and most responsible, voices of our societies, of our society. From the people who neither have nor seek someone to blame. Who feel responsible and are. Unique individuals who shape the wills of our anonymous societies, of our associations and foundations. The voices that decide and manage our collective endeavours.
Under Spanish law, the administrators are, by delegation of the boards, the ultimate responsible for corporate governance. Administrators, called advisors, although they do not advise the president but rather elect him from among themselves.
We want to tell what those who manage our capital, our votes and our rights think, and why. In the large listed companies and in the great institutions created to defend and represent us, to set the course.
To know what is happening and why in the noblest floors of the tallest towers. And not so tall ones as well, as often it is small, tiny companies that trigger changes that ultimately affect us all.
As in the court of the Medicis, part of the best grey matter on the planet meets today in the boards of our companies. As concerned about the creation of wealth as about a reasonable distribution of it. To those who share that yearning and are willing to discuss it, beyond commonplaces and banalities, these pages are addressed.