By Chris Gandy We Not for Profit Board Members are typically very diligent when it comes to recruiting a new CEO. After all, we are very busy people and the last thing a Chair or fellow Board members want is to be dragged in to steer a leaderless ship. So what usually happens? We urgent review today’s […]
Good CEO Candidates Aren’t Fools
By Chris Gandy I have a few people to thank for encouraging me to develop our Janus CEO Transition Program. Unwittingly, Alex was one of them. I have known Alex and the organisation he was the Board Chair of for a number of years. About two years ago I ran into him at a conference […]
Our Interim CEO’s Aspire To Be More Than Caretakers
Please don’t get us wrong. If a Board of a cause-based organisation decides to engage an Interim CEO and they instruct that person to “simply hold the fort” while they decide on a future direction, it is entirely their prerogative. And we are sure that there are many Interims who are prepared to take on […]
Like Transforming a Home Into a Grand Design
By Chris Gandy When attempting to explain a new concept or way of doing things, it is interesting how many in the audience try to liken the idea to an existing construct. I have been on the road lately talking about our Janus Leadership Transition Program and a common reaction has been to compare […]
Our Janus Program is CEO Recruitment With a Reverse 4.5 in Pike Position
By Chris Gandy Competitive Diving provides a great metaphor for our Janus Leadership Transition Program. At the outset, let me say that diving is not one of my things. In fact the few times in my life that I ventured off a Springboard my efforts could best be described as an uncontrolled fall rather […]