This year’s edition of Ghana’s Most Respected Company and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Awards, has been slated for Saturday October 20, 2012 at the Banquet Hall, State House in Accra. The award, to be held under the theme: “Growing the Leadership and Talent Pipeline” is being jointly organised by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Business and Financial Times to reward excellence in corporate Ghana. A statement issued in Accra and copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) by Mr Felix Addo, Country Senior Partner, PwC Ghana, said the objective of this year’s award was to crystallise how industry had grown leadership and talent over the years. The award scheme is organised to motivate companies and CEOs to move towards value creation, build public trust and promote good corporate governance practices. It said the Awards are a biennial opinion survey conducted amongst CEOs of various organizations in Ghana. “As we set the stage to become the leading middle income economy in West Africa, it is our hope that the survey will help identify what current business leaders are doing to identify, nurture and grow leadership talent to sustain our economic and social transformation,” it noted. The statement said in the Survey, CEOs were requested to choose the companies and CEOs they most respected and assign reasons for their choices. It said the overall objective of the survey was to seek the opinions of CEOs on which companies they respect most and identify those business leaders whose reputation gave them a competitive advantage based on a set of criteria. It noted that “when three-quarters or more of CEOs are very confident of growth, as we found in our most recent thought leadership survey in Ghana, there’s a sense that strategy can help capitalise on certain strengths or opportunities in the market.” “The true test will be whether the strategies that CEOs are deploying now will have the intended impact,” it added. Over 300 CEOs of medium to large organizations are expected to be surveyed on their perception of their peers’ vision and innovation, high ethical standards, promotion of human capital development, good corporate governance and harmonious industrial relations, unique and excellent leadership style, strong brands among others.