Christopher ED Graham, FCIPD, ACTP Managing Director C Graham Consulting A CEO can have an exceptional track record, outstanding references and perform brilliantly throughout an interview process. And still be the wrong appointment. Not necessarily because they have misrepresented themselves, but because the person they believe themselves to be, the person colleagues experience and the person who emerges under pressure are not always the same. There is a popular saying, oft

By Christopher ED Graham FCIPD, ACTP There is a moment in most executive careers when people realise that leadership is not primarily a test of intelligence. Nor is it entirely a test of technical expertise, strategic frameworks, operational scale, or how confidently somebody can say the words “digital transformation” while pointing at a slide containing several upward arrows. Eventually, leadership becomes something far more uncomfortable. It becomes a test of temperament. T