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...
by Guy | Dec 29, 2021 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Excellence, Growth, Leadership, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Profitability, Strategy, Success, Valuation
Many small and medium sized business owners believe that they don’t need a board for their company, but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, SMEs benefit even more from the experience and skills of a proper board than large ones, and by understanding the...
by Guy | Dec 22, 2021 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Growth, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Profitability, Strategy, Valuation
One thing I’ve noticed with board meetings over some 30 years of attendance is that far too many of them spend almost all the time on past results. We drive a car by looking primarily through the windscreen at the road ahead, not the rear-view mirror, so why don’t we...
by Guy | Dec 1, 2021 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, BusinessFitness, NEDs, Non-Executive Directors, Profitability, Strategy, Technology
I read an interesting report in ITWeb this week following a survey by Xero, the cloud-based accounting software company for SMEs, of 400 South African small business owners. It shows how a lack of technology understanding and skills is costing these businesses dearly...
