n Management Today - Harnessing the necessary skills in our own backyard

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Extracted from text ... S Harnessing the necessary skills in our own backyard Management Today Yearbook 2007 35 David Hutton-Wilson recently retired as head of board services at the Institute of Directors. He had been in executive recruitment before and also worked in industry in South Africa and in the UK. South Africa is facing a serious shortage of technical and administrative skills whether they lie in the engineering, manufacturing, financial or project management sectors. This must be taken into consideration in view of the fact that the government intends to move the economy rapidly towards a sustainable annual 6% growth rate in ..