The chief executive of North East-based software giant Sage has told how he uses the "waitress test" to see who will be good team player for his firm.
Steve Hare featured on Jake Humphrey's and Damian Hughes' High Performance podcast, which focuses on life lessons from high achieving people. The qualified accountant, who refers to himself as an introvert, talked about the formative points of his career, including a significant high in the early 2000s when he found himself as one of the country's youngest chief financial officers - but one that promptly turned to a low.
At just 39, Mr Hare became CFO at the £10bn revenue telecoms firm Marconi - a FTSE20 company at the time. Two profit warnings and a clutch of senior leadership departures all happened within six months of him taking the role, amid the "dot-com bubble crash".
