The economy is starting to get back on its feet, but what have company directors learnt from the crisis? Bill Knight lifts the lid on the way boardroom decisions are made and asks whether the process can be improved

As the economy shows signs of life and memories of the financial crisis of 2008 begin to fade, we ought to think back and ask, what have we learnt? We have new institutions and new rules and we have lost whatever innocence we had about the strength of our financial system, but what should the individual director take from it all? One issue that interests me is the way we take decisions in the boardroom.