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Vistage Ireland chair Etain Doyle will be hosting a member guest day at the Fitzwilliam Dublin Hotel on the 23 June. The international speaker Gary Markle will present his session 'Catalytic Coaching - A performance management system that works.' In this highly interactive workshop tailored specifically to meet the needs of Vistage participants, Gary makes his case for the abolishmen….
They never said it would be easy. Just when it looks that Ireland's battered economy is turning the corner, a storm builds to crisis proportions on the Euro zone's South Eastern periphery. The crisis has unfolded in distinct phases. The first consisted of German Government foot dragging over the go ahead for a €45bn rescue package that helped to spark panic in the bond markets….
Few doubt that small firms, the backbone of local communities, have been hit hard by the credit crunch. Many firms which would be viable when viewed from a long term perspective, have been forced prematurely to the wall, having been cut off at the knees by newly risk averse, cash strapped banks. Crunching Hard and Deep The accountancy group Mazars, has carried out a series of studi….
Jo Haigh is coming to Dublin this week to give a workshop to Vistage members and guests on ‘Finance for Non-Accountants’. Many CEOs get to the top because of their expertise in their profession, in sales/marketing or operations or whatever. They would not have survived without grasping the financial basics.  However, especially in difficult times, they can find their discomfo….
The Finance Act has received a broad welcome from business. Those who are set to benefit, in particular: - foreign executives assigned to work in the country. - firms involved in leasing and fund management - owners of intellectual property assets. - providers of Islamic finance products. - pensions providors - people selling land under compulsory purchase ….
The Government is banking on an innovation revolution to play a major part in extracting the country from the economic and financial black hole into which it has toppled so unceremoniously. In the last few weeks, two leading State groups, FAS and the Innovation Taskforce, have produced major reports suggesting that further shifts up the technological tree can produce major dividends….
MediaSnackers the social media experts took the opportunity to present to Vistage 33 at the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Dublin. They  ran a successful session on social media explaining the benefits of it to the corporate world. See below to see how the day went ….
These days, trust, credit and cash flow are all in short supply in the corporate world. Smaller enterprises have been affected in particular by the breakdown in financial connections Firms can do themselves a big favour with their suppliers and financiers where they can prove to everyone's satsifaction that their accounts present a full and fair picture of the state of the Company. ….
Much ink has been spilled, recently, on the subject of insider trading. This follows the high profile legal standoff between a leading Irish Plc, Fyffes, and one of its former directors, Jim Flavin, founder of another high profile quoted company, DCC. A succession of findings issued by the High Court, the Supreme Court, and most recently a High court Inspector, Bill Shipsey, may have….
Many of the elite of international business and politics gather, each year, at the Swiss resort of Davos to feel each others' pulse. The World Economic Forum may attract "the great and the good", but as an event it is less staged than the great organised photocalls of statesmen and women gathered at a G8 or G20 event. This year, an energetic debate took place between some of the West's….
