After the ballot box
New councils should resist the urge to plunge straight into policy firefighting. The real opportunity lies in the first hundred days, advises David Hammond, the...
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Leadership in an era of cost-savings
By David Hammond, Head of Consulting & Public Sectors, Tribe. Personally, I was not horrified by the removal of the four well-beings from the Local...
The founder dilemma
‘I wish there were a button’ … that’s a statement that needs some context – doesn’t it? asks David Hammond, the Executive Search Lead at...
Chief executive performance committees
David Hammond, Executive Search Lead, Tribe. It should be easy to develop the Terms of Reference (ToR) for a Chief Executive Performance Committee (titles may...
Recruiting executives in tough times
We are in one of the toughest periods for leadership in our modern history. If it feels that hard to you as a governance board...
How to lose a good chief executive
We know that retention of a good Chief Executive (CEO) is one of the major risks faced by organisations in a world where there is...
Better council governance
In my work, there has been a noticeable uptick of governance review and capability-building work in 2022. By David Hammond, the head of Tribe leadership...