The Business Power 100 and the tangled webs of their connections!

Interim Managers are generally a very well networked and connected lot, generally they have to be, the Interim Provider community will generally only introduce approximately 50% of assignments over an Interim Managers career lifetime so the other 50% have to be derived from the Interim Managers own network and it is usually the secondary and the tertiary networks that bear the most fruit. Yesterday 'The Times' published its fourth annual league table of the business good and the great...I have bulleted some highlights for your interest:

John Buchanan, the former CFO of BP is named the top of The Times Power 100 list of leading British business men and women. He earns the title courtesy of his directorship at four FTSE 100 Companies. He is deputy chairman of Vodafone and sits on the board of Astra Zeneca, BHP Billiton and Smith and Nephew.

FTSE 350 firms have a combined value of £1,739 billion

245 FTSE 350 directors earn at least £1 million a year

20 directors earn in excess of £3 million a year

FTSE 350 boards have an average of 9.4 directors

77 directors of FTSE 350 companies are under 40

73 are aged over 70 with 37 per cent in their 60's

On average, FTSE 350 Executives are paid £342,704 in basic salary and receive another £342,428 in bonuses

Non-execs in the FTSE 350 earn, on average, £78,187

12.7 per cent of top directors are Oxbridge educated

Just seven constituents of the Power 100 are women

13 have knighthoods and four more are enobled

Finally Cricket lovers out number football fans by two to one but more FTSE 350 directors say they like opera!

If you want to delve deeper I have for your convenience attached a link enjoy and happy networking!

Thank you to The Times for the inspiration behind this posting...