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Four tips for new CEOs.
We spoke to twenty-four directors and executives at public companies to ask them for their advice for a new CEO. Here's what they had to say.
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Love your roadshows? Here's how you get more from them.
Every passing year, attention spans get shorter. We are all more, and more, contactable. The lines between work and private life blur more. How we communicate and interact with each other changed drastically with the arrival of the smartphone and the evolution of the internet. Not only do those interactions
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Give your shareholders a voice.
Have you ever opened your registry, seen some random name with a random address, that's not only entered your registry but bought decently? All of a sudden, someone's gone from nowhere to your top 200, top 100, top 50 or even higher. You have to wonder
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Lessons from two years of running Chatham House Rule dinners for public leaders.
Did you come to one of our community dinners? We have held dozens of community dinners between 2023 and 2024, split between Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth. We have tried different formats, sizes of audiences, topics, guest speakers and more. We have met with more than 200 ASX executives, from
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What are you not asking for?
What do a primary school teacher, a government employee, and Steve Jobs have in common? Well, the primary school teacher is my mum, the government employee is my dad, and I have no familial relation to Steve Jobs. They do, however, all happen to be in the same generation of
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Is it feast or famine for your investors?
This week, I spoke to three overseas-based, but locally listed CEOs. All of them had come off the back of an Australian roadshow, spending a few weeks here, meeting face to face with their major shareholders, brokers, firms etc. Why are they meeting face to face? Because it works so
Become your own champion as a listed leader.
Ever heard of Anthony Mahavoric? What about Sasha Fierce? No? The odds are you have, but just know them by another name. Anthony Mahavoric was born in 1960, and you will know him by another name - Tony Robbins. Watching Tony now you can be forgiven that he has always
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Introducing the post-deal roadshow.
Congratulations! You just raised a tonne of money and validated investor demand in the business. Yes, you had to give a discount, maybe even an option, but you got it away and the job is done. Now you can go back to concentrating on the actual business, spend the money,
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How to avoid a bad share day.
What is a bad share day? Could it be… * 📉 Your share price drops… * 🧱 You have a big sell wall… * 😥 Or you release a great announcement only to see nothing happen… In each of these cases, what you expect to happen - hasn’t happened. You talk to the top 20;
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Are you talking to the right investors?
I’ve found that most public companies are talking to the wrong people. They think they’re addressing institutions, but the real audience is retail. I’ve been discussing on LinkedIn how many funds have upped their on-market market cap buying threshold from $50m to $250m. Meaning that they’re
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Anti-goals: The cheat code to better strategy.
Goals are great, but they are like looking at revenue without considering expenses, or having a big night out and not worrying about the following day. You're looking at the benefit whilst ignoring the cost. Anti-goals are the underutilised framework that resolves this issue. They ensure that you&
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Good shareholder engagement isn't difficult: it just requires effort.
The common trap of perceiving something as "too difficult", when in reality it just takes effort.