It was great to read Mark Weldon's comments reminding company directors to fire non-performing CEOs.  Time are too tough to put up with non-performance.  Actually its never OK to put up with non-performance.  Actually its not even just non-performance! Its lack lustre performance, un-innovative performance, short term thinking...

And its not just CEOs of publicly listed companies but consultants, contractors, suppliers....

I wonder if one of the reasons that a prominent business person has to remind company directors of their number one responsibility, is a result of the negative side of the kiwi culture I admire so much - open networking. Instead of doing the right thing and dealing with non-performance, opening up the possibilities of doing more and doing better, we worry about our own position, and the risk that our own reputation gets tarnished.  It's apparently too risky to speak out and point out bad behaviours, just in case the network jungle drums beat our our professional death knell. 

I mean, crikey who'd want a reputation like the brits and yanks for speaking honest professional up front truths?

Note to readers: I am a brit :-)