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Quiet hiring: why managers are recruiting from their own ranks
- 13 Mar 2024
As a tight labour market makes finding outside expertise harder, managers identify who on payroll has nascent or existing skills, give them training, and reallocate their responsibilities to meet fresh needs.
'What the voices of female executives reveal on investor calls
- 6 Mar 2024
Scrutiny of women at the top of companies can be brutal and unsparing. Nowhere more so than in the Wall Street ritual of the earnings call where executives face questions from financial analysts and investors over the latest set of results.
CEO turnover: Cross-country effects
- 28 Feb 2024
Chief executive officers (CEOs) are considered critically important to the functioning of a corporation, providing the key leadership role for the company's operations. Just as important is the corporate board that determines whether to keep or dismiss the CEO. The authors sought to understand important aspects of the board's contracting and monitoring processes, through which culture may affect CEO turnover.
The scramble to find CFOs as departures hit decade high
- 15 Feb 2024
Decade-high turnover among chief financial officers in the UK and elevated departure rates in the US and Europe have left large companies scrambling to fill the role, forcing many to expand their searches, rethink requirements and pay more to their top choices.
Beyond tech: the extra skills needed to future-proof careers
- 7 Feb 2024
Frontier AI systems are becoming increasingly powerful, with potential repercussions across the labour market. Future-proofing careers will mean not only gaining hard skills around technology but also developing a willingness to innovate, pivot, and learn on the fly.
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The joy of being a great deputy
- 24 Jan 2024
All leaders are incomplete. To have a deputy who completes the suite of leadership capabilities is the dream. Classically deputies are completer-finishers, process-orientated and deliverers, challenging leaders and acting as sounding boards. So why do so few aspire to these positions?
Why companies are tapping the boardroom for their next CEO
- 24 Jan 2024
As Chief Executive vacancies rise, so does the appeal of insider-outsider candidates. Board members are separate enough to enact change, but hold detailed knowledge of the company's culture, strategy, and goals.
In search of chief executives who never grow 'old'
- 3 Jan 2024
An increasing number of big companies are abandoning or waiving mandatory retirement ages in favor of competance-based executive appraisal.
Yawning skills gaps pose ‘a real challenge’
- 27 Dec 2023
A recent survey revealed that 36% of workforce vacancies resulted from skills shortages. Declining support for life-long learning isn't helping.
Whitehall seeks to turbocharge recruitment from the private sector
- 20 Dec 2023
Recruiting industry executives to civil service is one pillar of Britain's strategy to tackle the public sector’s productivity problem.
Why personal conduct is a growing risk for business
- 13 Dec 2023
Embarrassing revelations about senior leaders can damage trust and cause significant upheaval.
Bosses won’t like it but WFH is a happier way to work
- 29 Nov 2023
Homeworking is not just a corporate issue, it’s a chance to create a better society.
How the next generation is breaking into company boardrooms
- 22 Nov 2023
More businesses are offering apprenticeships to diversify the pool of future directors
AI in recruitment: the death knell of the CV?
- 15 Nov 2023
Generative technology is rebalancing the power dynamic towards applicants.
Having the conversation about mental health at work
- 1 Nov 2023
Keep questions non-judgmental, do not make assumptions, do recognise boundaries
Every big business needs its own Chief Political Officer
- 25 Oct 2023
Rolling crises have ensured that government relations is no longer a backwater department
You can’t pin workforce problems all on Gen Z
- 18 Oct 2023
Managers must take time to help ease the anxieties of a Covid generation
Younger CEOs may be an answer to business uncertainty
- 4 Oct 2023
The average age of chief executives is falling — but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing
How Cal Newport rewrote the productivity gospel
- 27 Sep 2023
His strategies for stressed-out knowledge workers have sold 2mn books. What does he know that we don’t?
Why ‘mattering’ in the workplace doesn’t really matter
- 20 Sep 2023
The new buzzword will do little to make employees feel more valued