

Blood is thicker than competence. And that, precisely, is the problem.
The mafia, too, is a family business. It is an observation the Financial Times deployed earlier this month, deliberately, to break the romance surrounding businesses held in family hands. The Trumps now run one as well, the United States, Professor Marco Becht of the Université Libre de Bruxelles added at a recent conference convened by IESE Business School in Barcelona and the European Corporate Governance Institute. Family-owned firms have purpose, patient capital and a lon
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The CCO is suddenly the hardest C-role to fill
Early 2025, I wrote my first newsletter on AI. It reads now with a certain nostalgia: an earnest reflection on Laloux and the question of what AI would do to our image of human beings in organisations. A touch saccharine, in hindsight. Because AI did not wait for our philosophy. It rolled straight in through the front door, and headed immediately for the place where revenue arrives: marketing and sales. Anyone who opened the Financial Times last weekend will have seen it conf
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