April 9, 2012

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Rivetings: April 04, 2012 at 02:19PM Apr 04, 2012 01:34 pm | john v willshire

I’ve actually started writing this, in a surprise ‘get stuff done early’ move. I say ‘writing’. Mainly photoshop. And made an animated gif.

rivetings

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Accountants drift to the top Apr 03, 2012 03:08 pm | john v willshire

“Even in the stable packaged goods markets, there has been a new type of marketing failure – Accountant’s Marketing. The producer bureaucracy has played its part here too, as companies get bigger and bigger, through mergers and acquisitions. Gradually the accountants drift to the top of the organization, replacing those whose experience has been in either the company’s products or its customers”

Quote from JWT’s Stephen King in 1985 (from “Has Marketing Failed, or was it Never Really Tried”). Picture of Sir Martin Sorrell, who bought JWT in 1987 after a hostile takeover.

The irony, eh?

UPDATE…

I’ve been doing a little research on this*.

In 1996, 24% of UK FTSE 100 CEOs had a background in finance. In 2008, that had risen to 31%. By last year, it was up to 49%.

There’s some new figures out for 2012 in the next few weeks.

If you want to be a CEO, you’d better get into the Finance dept. it seems.

*Source: [1]Heidrick & Struggles / [2]Robert Half Links: 1. http://www2.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=174607 2. http://www.roberthalf.co.uk/portal/site/rh-uk/menuitem.b0a52206b89cee97e7dfed10c3809fa0/?vgnextoid=9d70616ed177f210VgnVCM100000180af90aRCRD&vgnextchannel=0198ad657c762110VgnVCM1000000100007fRCRD

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