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My first month as a CEO...in numbers

It's been a busy few months as I moved from a wonderful few years spent with the Photobox Group to becoming Chief Executive for Conosco . Playing to my ' purple ' nature, here are some simple numbers to tell the tale of my first month as a CEO: 1 - organisational restructure 0 - resulting redundancies 4 - new members appointed to a newly-created Leadership Team spanning the UK and South Africa 1 - tailored leadership skills course completed by the new Leadership Team 20 - minutes that each leadership team member was asked by me to spend completing a self-analysis questionnaire ~0 - the number of cynics asked to engage with the exercise 1 professional lifetime - the time that the positive impact the individual questionnaire results that were presented to them will last on each of them (ask them, they agree.) 62 minutes - the time it took us to escape from ' Escape Rooms ' in London 32 - the floor we ate lunch at in the Shard where we celebrated our