Today we announced the addition of 30 more professional executive coaches to the team. We already had 34. Why would we want more? Because more of our clients worldwide want coaching services. Executive coaching and leadership development has shot to the front in recent years as a must-do tactic for accelerating the development of business […]
Leadership
Be the Warren Buffet of Leadership Recruiting
Seven Things to Look for in a New Leader When you are recruiting for an important executive position, the candidate’s experience, education and past accomplishments become table stakes. Especially if you are in a competitive, fast-moving business arena you have to know which of the candidates you are looking at is the game changer […]
The New Face of Business Leadership
Changes in the composition of the workforce in recent years are gradually establishing a new type of business leadership. In 30 years of global management positions, including with talent acquisition and development firms, I have not experienced such change in the conditions for successful management in such a short time. And the pace of […]
Understanding Culture Fit in China
In this age of culture fit, it seems only yesterday that western business leaders were worrying about how emerging markets would understand and react to them. Seems they worried for nothing. Today’s shoe is on the other foot and it is the western executives who wonder how to fit in. Last month, there was a […]
September in Europe: Changing Leaves & Boards
Management Boards[1] in Europe and Central Europe have been slowly undergoing changes. On the one hand, the US and the UK investment companies have invested in several local Banks, turning them around and changing the profiles of the new board in South East Europe as well as the fall-out of Brexit with UK banks entering […]
Yes, A Bad Candidate Experience Really Does Hurt You
Here’s something you already know about recruiting. Whether you hire the candidate or not (especially not), how he or she reacts to the experience matters a lot. The more difficult it gets to secure high-level/high quality talent, that interaction becomes more and more critical for two basic reasons. You miss an opportunity. Candidates have become […]
5 Challenges for Today’s CEO
Guest article by Karen Greenbaum, CEO and President of the global Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC) which has 6,000 members worldwide. This article first appeared in Forbes. Leadership today is more complex than ever. The growth of technology has ushered in an unprecedented rate of rapid and constant change. Today’s business environment […]