Beneficiation is a hot topic at the moment – and it makes sense. Throughout Africa’s history, we have suffered under the yoke of double exploitation. A simple example is cotton – cotton grown in the colonies was purchased by Britain at low cost, shipped to the UK where it was woven into cloth which was
Shareholders and non-executive directors should be more actively involved in challenging remuneration structures for their executives, says Gary Gilbert, Managing Director of Executive Choice a contingency recruitment company that is part of the Mindcor Group. Gilbert says executive remuneration must correlate with expected value-add from the leadership, particularly the chief executive officer. Responding to the
Leadership as a broad competence in an organisation is as critical as many other competencies to enable a business to deliver sustainable returns to its shareholders. A critical shift in thinking over the last few years has been to look at developing leadership as a broader and shared competence in organisations, rather than focusing only
The current group chief executive of Britain’s Barclays Bank, Antony Jenkins, has being quoted as saying that staff must “adopt the new values or leave”. Which signals a shift in the focus and orientation of many new CEO’s as they shift their corporations after the post 2008 impact on the banking sector and questions around
