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Companies generally put considerable thought into when and how they announce major business decisions. Acquisitions, geographic expansion, new product development, restructuring, and changes in corporate strategy are often discussed privately for months before the information becomes public. What companies ...

Replacing an executive who is underperforming is a relatively straightforward business decision, even when the process itself is difficult. Replacing an executive who has been successful presents a more complicated challenge. The individual may have delivered strong financial results, ...

Conducting a confidential executive search is challenging enough when a company needs to replace a sitting executive or recruit for a sensitive leadership position. In a small or closely connected industry, those challenges become considerably more complicated. Executives often ...

When a senior executive leaves an organization, the immediate concern is usually who will take over the role. But in some executive transitions, finding the replacement is only part of the problem. A long-tenured executive may hold years, or ...

Replacing a sitting executive quietly presents a problem that goes beyond confidentiality. Keeping the search from becoming public is important, but that is only one part of managing the transition successfully. The harder question is often what happens between ...

Replacing an executive who has been with a company for 15, 20, or 30 years is very different from filling an ordinary leadership vacancy. Over that amount of time, the executive's role often becomes much larger than what appears ...

Not every executive search needs to be confidential. But when the circumstances call for discretion, treating the search like a standard hiring process can create problems long before a new executive is hired. We have worked with companies conducting ...

A turnaround is a company in a race against its own decline, and the outcome often turns on leadership more than on any single decision that leadership will make. Bringing in the right person, at the right moment, can ...

Some searches ask a company to hire a leader for the organization it is, and some ask it to hire a leader for the organization it is about to become. The second is considerably harder, particularly when the change ...

By the time a company sits down to begin a leadership search, one question is often settled before it is ever truly asked. Should the process be confidential? For some organizations discretion is simply assumed. For others, an open ...