Clive Sexton

A full-time commitment to interim management

Interim executives remain committed to their clients' work even when they are on holiday, according to our most recent survey of interim executives. Some 41% of respondents took a laptop computer on holiday with them this years, with 26% saying they did b... Read >

The Life Audit, your chance to call the changes for 2009?

These past months the world has moved at an unprecendented pace and whether you are an Interim Manager or in a permanent role, I suspect many interim management providers and recruitment business are receiving a flood of CVs. So this may well be the ... Read >

Blue-sky Thinking

The UK is facing some of the most challenging economic conditions for many years. Profit warnings are coming thick and fast, and the sense of gloom is deepening with every new announcement about rationalizations and redundancies. But every challenge repr... Read >

A new theory of creation

"The new game is about more efficiency and more innovation," write CK Prahalad and MS Krishnan in their new book The New Age of Innovation: Driving co-created value through global networks. As a motto for companies battling with the most severe economic ... Read >

Having it all?

Generation Y - that is , people born during or since 1980 - have been popularly characterised as work-shy prima-donnas who expect riches and success to fall into their laps. But in the decade that I have been esearching the factors involved in workplace ... Read >

Brand-new leadership

"We're shifting from leader to leadership, and from leadership to leadership brand," says Dave Ulrich, Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and probably the world's leading guru of Human Resource ma... Read >

Building Relationships

The Decent Homes programme is a 10-12-year £40bn government initiative to modernise all the UK's social housing. CityWest Homes, an arms-length management organisation (ALMO), which spun off from Westminster City Council five years ago, is spending £... Read >

Web Woes

Britain's industrial revolution, which took place over 200 years ago, transformed us from a local to a national economy, a rural to an urban society and a small-scale producer to a mass producer. The internet revolution has similar transformational potent... Read >

A new way of giving

Please don't call me a philanthropist; I am just trying to be useful," said one of the individuals Charles Handy interviewed for his new book The New Philanthropists. The book comprises a series of interviews with what Handy has identified as ‘entrepren... Read >

A Measured Approach

Early last year Serco, the company that manages NPL on behalf of the Government, won an important new contract with the DTI. The head of NPL's biggest division, Engineering and Process Control, went off at short notice to run it, leaving the organization ... Read >

All the World's a Business Stage

No business leader interested in the challenge of globalisation can afford to ignore the work of Kenichi Ohmae, an acclaimed management strategist renowned for his work on globalisation and the borderless economy. Dubbed "Japan's only successful manage... Read >

Lean and Green

The initial response of many companies to Sir Nicholas Stern's apocalyptic report into the human and economic cost of global warming is likely to have been denial. Sir Nicholas warned that the risks of inaction are high and that time is running out. But a... Read >

Healthy Connections

NHS Connecting for Health hired an Interim Human Resources Director to provide professional senior management support for the organisation delivering the national programme for IT. The National Programme for IT (NPfIT), which is key to modernizing the ... Read >

Interim Marketing Managers Mind the Gap

While interim marketing managers always claim that ‘delighting' customers is their ultimate aim, this being the best way to deliver profitable growth, two new pieces of research suggest that most marketing activity is destined to disappoint. The Prom... Read >

Successful Succession

Succession issues are currently at the top of many organisations' agendas - and if they're not, they should be. It is difficult to effect a smooth and successful handover and forward planning and careful consideration are essential. The Football Associ... Read >