4 ways CEOs hold businesses back: UniSA's Jana Matthews

"Too few Australian CEOs understand how to achieve, let alone accelerate growth, and not enough aspire to become global companies. If we want our economy to grow, we need to teach CEOs how to grow by avoiding these four barriers.

1. Inward focus

Many CEOs micromanage their people or spend more time working on the product than studying their markets, customers and the world around them. CEOs need to be externally focused, study the trends impacting their industry and assess the implications for their company. Opportunities for growth are often related to shifts in customer demographics, behaviour, and new technologies." Read more

Jana Matthews AFR 29 June 2016