Enter the Boardroom with Nurole 158: Sir Ian Cheshire: How to get the most value from your board as a CEO (1/2)
Sir Ian Cheshire is Chair of Land Securities Group and Spire Healthcare Group. Formerly, he was Group Chief Executive of Kingfisher plc and Chair of Channel 4, Barclays Bank UK and Debenhams. Tune in to hear his thoughts on: The three most important interventions boards made to Sir Ian as an exec (01:28) The main difference between reporting to and sitting on a board (06:04) How CEOs and execs build better relationships with their boards (08:48) How they can make sure boards focus where they can add most value (12:57) How and why boards should use cooling off periods when making decisions (15:39) How NEDs are able to pick up on things execs miss (17:18) The right and wrong way for NEDs to be persistent (19:59) Where CEOs can rely on Chairs to help them with divestments (23:18) Sir Ian’s hardest board meeting as a CEO - firing senior execs (26:32) How CEOs should present redundancy decisions to the board (28:25) The moments where Ian and the board have got things badly wrong (32:07) Heuristics to understand retail boards (33:06) Why organisations continually lose focus on the customer (36:57)
Host: Oliver Cummings
Producer: Will Felton
Editor: Penelope Coumau
Music: Kate Mac
Audio: Nick Kold
Email: podcast@nurole.com
Web: https://www.nurole.com/nurole-podcast-enter-the-boardroom