15 Jun Can anyone be a CEO?
Can anyone be a CEO? What characteristics makes an ideal leader? James McLaren, Managing Partner and Founder of Sterling Black, explores this and more in the Future Women Leadership Series podcast hosted...
Author: Lucy Liddle
11 Jun Why would anyone want to be a Chair?
It’s all fun and games until the Chair’s head is on the chopping block, so why put it there in the first place? As the recent Royal Commissions swept through...
11 Jun When the values of the Chair destroys company value
Only a few bright sparks saw the Global Financial Crisis coming. And no one saw the COVID-19 pandemic event coming. So for most of us, they were particularly catastrophic Black...
19 Dec There’s only one decision that matters – CEO succession
If CEO succession took its cues from nature, we would be faced with a primal process. Picture two candidates circling each other, circling and swooping like eagles, poised to fight...
19 Dec Why every company needs to conduct a Board assessment review
Do you regularly conduct a board assessment review of the capability of your Directors? Industry experience? Tick. Gender quotient? Tick. Taste for lamingtons? Tick. Unfortunately, we’ve found too many Board Members across...
04 Apr Board effectiveness: Are you running the board or is Management running it for you?
We’ve all heard tales of Deutsche Bank’s uncomfortable demise. From a well-respected institution, the German powerhouse allowed a series of hasty cowboys to wrestle control of the bank, loot it...