14
While the Top 40 companies are big enough to
accommodate several moves by a leader before
reaching the CEO role – which means that such
leader’s tenure with a company would have been
longer – leaders in smaller companies have to
move around more regularly to gain
similar expertise.
Tenure
15
20
24
25
When looking for just the right candidate, the expectation and requirement of
long tenure is not likely outside very big listed corporates.
To expect a leader in a smaller company to have stayed there for longer than
five years is simply unrealistic.