Penny Black's Insurance Week - 12 September 2013
Penny was fascinated to see Scottish knitwear brand Lyle & Scott announce a bold new strategy for choosing its next CEO - Twitter.
With a stated salary of £250k, the application process through @LyleAndScottCEO aims to “automatically select out the dinosaurs”, but Penny wonders if there are any similarly “old-fashioned” brands in
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