by Guy | Aug 8, 2022 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Growth, Leadership, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Profitability, Success, Valuation
As a business grows, so do the complexities of leadership and the essential skills requirements of the top team – a team comprising both the executive leadership (C-Suite) and the board. Too often, the founders continue as they started – trying to do it all themselves...
by Guy | Jun 23, 2022 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Economy, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Lifestyle, Motivation, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Productivity, Profitability, Work Life Balance
Last week I wrote about how an Unretirement policy – enabling older workers who would previously have been expected to retire – can be a significant driver in overcoming the skills shortage. This clearly struck a chord with many people, judging by the number of ‘hits’...
by Guy | Jun 15, 2022 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Coaching, Economy, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Productivity, Risk, Work Life Balance
There is no question that there’s a global skills shortage – not just among the developed countries, but the developing ones, too, like South Africa – with no less than 87% of companies either already experiencing this, or expecting to do so within the next few years,...
by Guy | Jun 13, 2022 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Economy, HR & Personnel, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Productivity
Are businesses not ignoring a great source of knowledge, skill and experience by mandating retirement based on an arbitrary age, generally between 60 and 65 for men, when longevity has increased so much? By the age of 65 we’ve generally spent somewhere between 40 and...
by Guy | Feb 17, 2022 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Profitability, Success
I’ve written recently about when it’s time to look for a new CEO and also why so many successions fail. Often, though, the problem of where to find a replacement comes up, especially with The Great Resignation firmly underway and a well-documented shortage of staff...
by Guy | Feb 3, 2022 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, HR & Personnel, Leadership, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Profitability, Success, Valuation
$1 trillion a year. That staggering figure is the estimated cost, in lost market value, of badly managed CEO and C-suite transitions in the S&P1500 according to research published in the Harvard Business Review last year. The research believes that better...
