Leadership – Mercuras Group

The CxO Sieve; Does the Start-Up Need the C-Suite

It’s exceptionally common to meet the founders of a start-up and all of them have a C-level title, assumedly designating their area of expertise. In this post, we aim to explore if this the best way to divide tasks and assign responsibility, and build the future for your company. In an established organisation there are established divisions, teams, systems, and processes that all require oversight and governance, and presumably they have gone through maturation and [...]

Do Your People ‘Get It’?

Creating a company is unlike anything you've done before. It is the most draining, exhausting, all-consuming beast that eats every second of free-time, wakes you in the night, and demands sacrifices your social life upon the Alter of Hope for months - and likely even years - at a time. Whether apocryphal or not, the idea that in the 1960's, a member of the press (or J.Fk> himself) asked a janitor in the background of [...]