They say that chief executives are recruited away from very appealing jobs and that they need to have some job security in their new positions.
That may have been true 20 or even ten years ago, but by now substantial numbers of women have arrived in middle management and even in the "marzipan layer" (just below the icing) from which future top executives are recruited.
When a large number of executives are recruited to meet the demands of rapid institutionalization, their previous status and professional characteristics are not completely wiped out.
It is important that the owner's vision for the company be clear to the executives being recruited.
A good place to start would be to inquire just how one of the system's most important executives was recruited and hired, and whether he's everything his CEO says he is.
In 2008, Matthews, a former leading NHS executive, was recruited to try to make a go of the remaining 54 factories, while developing Res, under a modernisation plan that was given £555m of government funding over five years.
"The Co-operative is going through a tough and turbulent time and what is now important is that a chief executive is recruited who has a vision for coupling the best of the Co-op's past with a clear vision for the future," Thomas said.
The Durham chief executive was recruited by the PCC.
