Reports and releases
Meet the new breed of chief executive: closer to kindergarten than retirement age
Financial Times
Are chief executives getting younger? Or, as with policemen, is their youth simply in the eye of the beholder?
This week, HBOS announced that a stripling of 38, Andy Hornby, is to take over as chief executive of the bank in the summer. Read more...
The hunting of the executives
Telegraph
'Now here,' said the Red Queen, 'it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must learn to run at least twice as fast.'
Welcome to a topsy-turvy world where everyone speaks in riddles and does extremely odd things. Actually, this wonderland is not Alice's but her fantastical adventures are the closest thing to the mysterious goings-on at City headhunters. Why else would Saxton Bampfylde Hever have hijacked Lewis Carroll's creation to try to explain whatever it is that it does. Read more...