Succession planning

It looks like Dave Cameron's best friend, Dom Loehnis, might be helping with the hunt for the next BBC DG.

Lord Patten has revealed to The Times that he's turned to recruitment consultants Egon Zehnder for a "succession plan" by Easter: "They are going to give us a report on what sort of people we should be looking for. They are not seeking a candidate".  Dom usually leads for EZ on BBC matters. He was the headhunter when the BBC "found" Lord Patten.  I chronicled the Dave and Dom relationship here back in November 2010.

What's Dom's latest leadership thinking ?  Here's a bit from the EZ online magazine...

While no company can get by without a CEO, the profile of the top job and the tasks in entails will change as hierarchies become blurred. The CEO will have less control over the entire organization if, depending on the nature of the task, power centers are created at various levels and virtual teams with members drawn from different functions and departments work together to find solutions. The CEO will need the inner strength and the confidence to entrust these intelligent, creative, and unconventional employees with greater latitude. At the same time, however, he or she must also introduce clear processes, defining the criteria in line with which the best and most promising options and approaches are selected from among the many possibilities or when a project is to be concluded. Above all, though, top managers will in future lead by convincing their people, not by barking out orders.


Dom's style is equally laid-back. His Twitter account has been mildly hacked by a different class of recruitment operation - his most recent tweet: "Stay at home single mom makes $357 an hour work at home jobs online. find out how here (etc)"