Checking references: the most underestimated part of an appointment
Anyone who rereads the file after an appointment that went wrong will often find that the signals were there all along. They were not written down as warnings. They were small things that were noticed at the time and never voiced, such as a departure that was never quite explained or a referee who was […]
Interim or permanent: a governance decision, not a stopgap
When an executive or director leaves, the first question at the table is almost always a practical one: who takes over the work until there is a successor? An interim appointment is then the obvious answer. It brings calm, keeps business moving and buys the organisation time. Whether that time is used well is a […]