“So, how should they go about recruiting a new CEO?”   There has been so much discussion recently about the performance and remuneration of CEO’s that I thought that it would be interesting to contemplate how Aviva, now in need of a new boss following the ignominy of a company general meeting, of all things, telling the last one that he didn’t deserve a pay...

Farmers and their suppliers have rarely had it so good, but who will be left holding the baby? The owners of John Deere, the world famous brand of tractors and other agricultural machinery, normally painted green with yellow trim and decorated with a leaping deer logo, can’t spend their capital dollars fast enough at the moment as the demand for agricultural...

“Excessive margins always come with a sell-by date.” The mobile industry is an interesting place at the moment. Blessed with license-based market protection, not available even in the wildest dreams of most business owners, mobile network operators have successfully held serious competitors at bay for some time now. But as this highly regulated market matures...

“You won’t get a fair price when you have no other option but to sell.” Sports personalities can be a source of a lot of wisdom.  Eric Cantona gave us the classic line “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.” Bret Hart, a Canadian writer, actor and retired professional wrestler currently signed...

“The same technological changes that have allowed disintermediation of the traditional supply chain have created an industry of intermediation on the demand side.” In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain, more popularly known as “cutting out the middleman”. The world is currently coming to terms with the...