This weekend we learned that Steve Easterbrook, now the former CEO of multinational fast-food giant McDonald’s, was fired over an ongoing relationship with a work colleague.
Set to become the first female to lead any of the UK’s top four big banks (RBS, HSBC, Barclays and Lloyds), Alison Rose has been announced as the successor to current RBS chief executive Ross McEwan.
Appointing a female CEO has a significantly positive effect on non-family firms’ performance, but a negative impact on family businesses, according to new research from emlyon business school.
When you’ve got a million and one things to do, it’s often easier to throw a meeting in the diary and assume your problem will be fixed. But without proper planning, that doesn’t happen, and you just end up more frustrated.
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