Is it possible to take charge of an organisation in the commercial world and run it effectively if you know little or nothing about the company’s core business?
Imagine an automotive industry wizard – the sort of person who has built up a highly successful engineering business – being parachuted into ailing supermarket giant Woolworths and being told to turn it round quickly.
Do you back the person running a mining empire to know how to run an emotional and consumer oriented sector such as health care?