{"id":1765,"date":"2024-04-23T21:33:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T21:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2024-04-24T19:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T19:07:22","slug":"whod-be-a-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/whod-be-a-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’d be a CEO?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I ask this rhetorical question because so much is happening in the business world and CEO\u2019s are facing challenges the like of which we have not seen before. Change is the key word here and mapping change and managing change is now a fundamental part of the role of a CEO. You might say it always has been but never more than now. This is not just my view. I read (several times!) an excellent article in the Cape Times last week, so good that I would invite others to read it.\r\n \r\n The article stems from a report on CEO\u2019s by Heidrick & Struggles. It speaks of the \u201cpace of change\u201d but quite rightly points out that these are not the most turbulent times we have lived in, however the speed and types of change are affecting stability. One CEO said, \u201dYou have to look at almost everything as something that could kill you...\u201d\r\n\r\nThe whole article made me think quite a lot about the pressures and problems of today\u2019s business life for corporations, particularly global ones. Then I read another article, this time by Rob Otty, MD of Norton Rose Fulbright here in SA and also their Head of Litigation. \r\nRob\u2019s article also speaks of the role of CEO\u2019s today and, inter alia, he feels that being approachable is the key to transforming a business. He points to CEO\u2019s in the past believing that only their views and ideas were relevant and their businesses have suffered for this \u201c...narrow perspective..\u201d The article develops a theme of CEO\u2019s being emphatic and proactive and encouraging its employees also to be proactive. Another good article and worth a read, along similar lines to the first.\r\n\r\nSo why am I so interested in CEO\u2019s and corporations and what has this to do with being an eDiscovery Consultant in SA? There is personal interest, as business fascinates me and I was a Managing Director in the UK for more than 10 years, but of course there are direct links to what I do in both of these articles. The first article speaks of \u201cTechnological innovations...and the rise of social media\u201d as being one of the new challenges. I preach about the way in which technology has created so many new issues for all of us and how some of the technology in my sphere helps. I have spoken about how I have concerns about the increase in communications via Social Media in terms of viewing and collecting those communications for Discovery purposes. The first article also cites cyber threats as an area of change with which the CEO has to handle and again I have written and spoken about this.\r\n \r\n Although not specifically mentioned in either article, information governance is a huge challenge for CEO\u2019s of certain types of organisations now \u2013 the first article speaks of these types of challenges without using the precise words information governance. This is so much of a factor now that it has been added to the Electronic Discovery Reference Model www.edrm.net.\r\n\r\nThen of course Rob Otty who is an MD as well as a Litigation lawyer, speaks on the subject of CEO\u2019s being ahead of the game, being emphatic and proactive.\r\n \r\nThose are some of the links and let me also add that my initiative in attempting to drive changes in the Rules of Discovery in SA is about participants and all those affected , including CEO\u2019s, accepting change in today\u2019s environment. It is interesting that I have had support from some CEO\u2019s for this initiative (see next post!).\r\n\r\nTo answer my rhetorical question which is the heading of this post, \u201cWho\u2019d be a CEO?\u201d \u2013 well, many would, and thank goodness for that. These are skilled, qualified and determined people ready to meet these and other challenges. I like change and I will be looking to learn more and, hopefully, receive even more support from CEO\u2019s and lawyers for what I am trying to achieve here in SA.<\/p>\r\n <\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonsedconsulting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}