Mike Wylie on WBHO's secret sauce: Five attributes his leaders must possess

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Nowadays few employees consider lifetime employment. But back in 1974, things were very different as outgoing WBHO chairman Mike Wylie tells us in this fascinating interview on Rational Radio. Wylie has been intimately involved in the growth of a tiny Cape-based startup business that is today SA's dominant construction company - and the only major player still standing after a decade of decline. He reckons it's all about the people, crediting WBHO's longstanding approach of only promoting from within and the five attributes his leaders must possess before being considered for the next step upwards. - Alec Hogg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Aug 2019 8AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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