Nic Humphries
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529 appearances
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first heard Jul 2021
last heard Sep 2024
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On the competency point, um, I think you've got almost a unique perspective of any chief exec I've I've dealt with.
And it might be just worth um highlighting your own personal kind of CV and background because I think it brings a unique perspective, not just on technology, but on the kind of people side of business, which we all know in any knowledge economy is probably the number one driver of success.
So um would
mind just linking your own personal background into how you've then got a perspective on what makes great people and and and why that marries in with a kind of Norwegian focus on competency above uh mo most other attributes, I guess.
Yeah, and uh having experienced that kind of firsthand by seeing the way that you've kind of developed the leadership team.
Um, I mean it's just very, very, very clear um that that's both special and also
Kind of quite different, I think, to, you know, to to larger organizations.
You know, Visma has grown from being a very, very entrepreneurial business, you know, of probably less than two or three hundred people when uh I first got involved to a business now of kind of many thousands of people.
I guess um
Uh without wanting to necessarily call out any one individual, but I mean, would you just kind of illustrate for the people listening to Moretta, kind of some of the I I guess they would be regarded as like slightly maverick or different ideas about where you've kind of prioritized kind of competency, you know, over perhaps kind of pure age or or experience?
And I'm I'm thinking about a number of people around the senior management team table, uh, you know, their ages, their relative.
experience, you know, the the archetypal example more generically for me is that I think I'm right in saying in the last year or two that just about everybody in a finance role that's been recruited into Visma also has to have a programming or tech background, um, which you know is not that normal, I don't think.
Uh, but could you give us a couple of ill illustrations of of what you know where you think kind of competency is kind of maybe worn out over what might be
traditionally viewed as uh experience.
Yeah, which is uh it's terrific and it's refreshing and uh it obviously makes me feel old every time I can have attend a board meeting.
Um
I guess on a on a on a personal basis actually.
So uh I've got a uh kind of
Daughter of twenty four and a son of twenty two and uh
one of their uh one of their kind of constant gripes is that uh you know, kinda having to kind of do X years before they can kinda get any responsibility is not something that they're really uh
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