Have you identified the need to fill a critical executive level position…one that will play a key role in facilitating your strategic business objectives? In a highly competitive and dynamic business environment, selecting an executive with the appropriate skills who will contribute as a key team member is crucial. However, finding and recruiting senior level […]
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Post-Covid Job Expectations: It’s A New Work World. Dive in.
What once were considered ground rules in both job seeking and recruiting are changing rapidly. As the pace picks up again, both candidates and employers need to examine post-Covid job expectations and recognize that new opportunities have entered the mix. Here are some examples. 1. Should you take the opportunity to change industries? Sometimes a well-qualified candidate, […]
The One Social Media for Business
We’re looking at business use of social media. Last week, we decided that many companies which invest in online marketing plans for most social media are missing the boat. Let’s back up and start by defining what we are talking about. Business Marketing in general takes one of two forms. For Business-to-Consumer (B2C) your target is the […]
Re-Thinking Business Social Media
If you are an STM demolition and construction company, in a local market, should your marketing investment include Facebook and Twitter? If you think that is a mismatch, join the group. Yet, MGI Construction Company sees sales out there in Twitter’s 24 million followers. Or they don’t really and it’s just an example of what might […]
The Best Value in Executive Recruiting
A friend of mine who writes an excellent financial newsletter always signs off with a quote from Warren Buffet: Price is what you pay. Value is what you get”. Tony Tiberius came to mind as I read a recent article published by HuntScanlon, a North American publisher in the executive search and leadership niche. The article […]
Be Careful Where You Sit
It’s known as Miles Law, and it’s attributed to Rufus Edward Miles, a Federal administrator who served as an assistant secretary under three U.S. presidents. It states: “where you stand depends on where you sit.” The phrase acknowledges that where we stand in the perspectives that affect our opinions or decisions, comes from where we […]
AESC Interviews Links Dollars and Diversity & Inclusion
According to Gallup, “Organizations that are the best in engaging their employees achieve earnings-per-share growth that is more than four times that of their competitors. Compared with business units in the bottom quartile, those in the top quartile of engagement realize substantially better customer engagement, higher productivity, better retention, fewer accidents, and 21% higher profitability. […]
Switching To Decision-Enabling From Decision-Making
(Ed Note: This article first appeared in Forbes, for whom George is a regular contributor. He is also an alumnus of Coca Cola where he formed a deep respect for CEO Neville Isdell and his leadership ability. George looks back on those qualities here) If decisions have to go through you, you’re the choke point at […]
Succession Planning Critical to Business Continuity
Many companies fail to pay adequate attention to their leadership pipelines and succession planning. Earlier this month, a study published in the Harvard Business Review came to an astonishing conclusion: the market value wiped out by badly managed CEO and C-suite transitions in the S&P 1500 alone is close to $1 trillion a year. It […]
The Importance of A-Level Talent
Attracting and retaining top performing executives is the true lifeblood of successful organizations, yet identifying and attracting them can be a challenging endeavor. Top performers, in leadership roles, will deliver about 50% more than the average and will improve their organization’s competitive position. Yet, according to McKinsey, 82% of Fortune 500 executives don’t believe that […]
Can You Be Too Busy?
Is your career suffering from being too busy? There is a lot to say about being busy. Some good, some bad. But the important thing is to recognize a difference between being busy and being effective. Being busy is not contributing. Sometimes too much activity results in lower performance and not accomplishing your goals. The last year […]
Transformation Calls for Resilience
You are an executive search professional. Your job is to find exceptional people who can lead an organization out of one of the most disruptive periods in recent history and into a new period of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity – and opportunity. What exactly are you looking for? Learning agility ? Innovation? Confidence? “Resilience,” says […]
How To Be A Good Board Member
So, you want to become a Board member? Here’s the bottom line. If you do it well, being a Board member will be more work than you anticipated; more responsibility than you may have understood; a bit more frustrating than you expected; and a rewarding joy and a privilege. Board service is a real job — […]
Economic Shifts Threaten Family Businesses
The majority of the world’s wealth is created by family owned businesses. Estimates suggest that these businesses — majority owned by a single family — may contribute over 70% of the world’s GDP. They deliver a superior return on assets in the U.S. (+6.5%), even more in Europe (+8%). But the current economic stress created […]
Get Ready for Covid Passports
Last week our Life Sciences & Health practice hosted a global webinar on the current status of the coronavirus pandemic. Medical scientist Dimitri Lavillette explained the incredible advances of immunization in using your own body as a bio-lab in the development of a vaccine – within a single year. Dr. Richard Jones looked at a […]
WEBINAR: Can Medical Science Turn the Covid-19 Corner?
Since November, 2019 this tiny virus has been responsible for infecting 115 million people in 219 countries
How to Assess Intercultural Sensitivity / ICQ
Anne de Landsheer is a specialist in Intercultural Intelligence – a vitally important aptitude for executives and scientists working across borders and cultures. Her previous post is Are You Measuring Intercultural Intelligence? . Here, she speaks with writer Joan Miller. MILLER: Anne, how do you assess the ICQ of an executive level candidate? Are […]
Why Executives Need Cybersecurity Training
Cybersecurity is no longer a niche issue for tech companies. With our growing reliance on online platforms, it’s very quickly becoming a priority
Limping into 2021
The view of earth from the International Space Station, 400 km up, is stunning. You can’t help wondering if you can see all the band-aids. Our poor, bruised planet and the people who live here have survived one of history’s more trying years. The worst pandemic in over 100 years has affected over 200 countries […]
Private Equity Recruiting – Part IV: Don’t Overlook Tangential Opportunity
This four-part series recognizes the challenging factors surrounding a search for the ideal leader of a Private Equity company