Versatile Amphibian

In my last post , I summarised the findings of my analysis of the composition of executive leadership teams in the FTSE 100, having first set out some basic principles for the role of that team in the present environment. You can find that content here. Today I’m going to start to look at possible roles on an ideal future ExCo, leading onto future essays on orthodox and unorthodox compositions and finally on the resulting impact those compositions will have on decision-making flows. To look at roles, we first need to think about the demands that the present environment is placing on leaders. The world has always been a complex place to do business in. The difference today is that we are far more aware of that complexity than we have been in previous generations and our ability to generate and suffer from change is exponentially greater than it has been before. We are also nearing the end of the latest techno-economic revolution – in information technology – which began in 1971...

A quick post from me to share a little piece of analysis I did today about the grow of corporations. I've been interested for a while in the effects of tech' superpowers on the structure of adjacent markets. My thesis is that in response to their influence, companies will consolidate to create superpowers with the buying power to compete on a more even footing. As part of my test of this thesis I've looked at the growth of the largest corporations over the last 10 years. The results are fascinating. The schematic shows that the average revenues of a top-10 US corporate more than doubled from 2000 to 2011. Set against this, GDP grew 50% in the same period. I'd expect a snowball effect to occur in the next decade, where the spending power of these corporations massively outpaces that of smaller companies and thereby leads to huge inorganic global growth. Set against these US corporate giants will be new emerging players from the East. Globally, six of the top te...