Briefings for boards, chairs and non-executive directors.
Leadership
I once showed a board they had a client trying to spend another $30 million with them, and no one in sales, customer, delivery or leadership had done anything about it. There I was, like Rafiki holding up the Lion King to the sun and its worshippers: “Here is your client, who has asked
Leadership
Every time financial pressure rises, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) is binned. It is the twitchiest of government policies and company strategies. It comes in and out of fashion faster than a MasterChef TV host. The UK just scrapped its green investment taxonomy and pulled
AI
The Executive Summary's latest pulse survey researched 150 global enterprise CEOs on their relationship with technology. Most studies focus on CIOs, but with the rise of AI, CEOs are pushing harder to drive the tech agenda themselves. Two Stats That Matter [more to be revealed]: * 68% of
Leadership
You’ve already seen the signs: * A record wave of CEO resignations in 2024 as leaders walk away from roles that no longer come with a playbook. * CEOs calling other CEOs for real-world answers - cutting past consultants and boards/ * The widespread rejection of default platforms and
Leadership
You've probably seen that corporate diversity programmes have been rolled back in a number of US companies. Whether this has truly been driven by legal or political pressure remains to be seen, but CEOs around the world are now being asked to make their position clear. What’s Happening?
Leadership
As Crowdstrike’s share price continues to slide today, Microsoft is doing its best to distance itself from the massive outage of 8.5 million Windows devices. The funny thing is, I was penning a piece for you on how smug Microsoft has been of late due to its success in marketing Copilot,
Leadership
City of London CEOs and CIOs The Executive Summary increases its focus on business and technology leaders, but from hereon will only focus on CEOs and CIOs in the City of London. That means, our content is designed for those folks running and operating businesses mainly in financial,
Growth
Morning everyone I hope you had a great Father’s Day. I’ll tell you about mine in another post… This week, we’re building the Growth Blockers survey for Q2. The feedback on our Q1 Growth Blockers report was great. One fintech CXO even said: “I read your report and it was exactly what is
Growth
Hi guys As promised, today we’re launching Growth Blockers UK: Q1 – What is stopping top-line growth in tech & professional services? So the headline executive summary for you: * 72% of CXOs said their companies were not hitting targets in Q1 * The majority cite slow buyer decisions and
Leadership
Succession vs success… There are many new faces at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 28) this year – and herein lies an underlying problem in tackling multi-decade projects: CEO tenure. This is not just for sustainability, but leadership and teams in general. It’s well known that
Growth
Investors look for greater revenue potential A shift in value creation priorities is changing investment decisions… Private equity investing is based on majority share ownership of companies where the investor – or general partner – can make active decisions in the company they have
Leadership
Glass half full or empty? What are CEOs thinking today? It’s not pretty, according to Deloitte and Fortune in their 2023 winter CEO survey (104 CEOs). Here are the key takeaways from Fortune (paywall): * 48% of CEOs are pessimistic about the global economy * 36% expect growth to be strong.
