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 ...
A chief financial officer closes the books on a strong quarter, reassures a nervous lender, and leaves for the evening having done the job well. What she doesn't know is that her board reached a difficult conclusion several weeks ...
Hiring through your network feels like the responsible thing to do. You are going to people you trust, getting candidates who come with a personal endorsement, and skipping the uncertainty that comes with evaluating someone you know nothing about. ...
When the broader job market softens, a familiar assumption tends to surface in boardrooms and leadership team conversations. The thinking goes something like this: there are more candidates available, competition for talent has cooled off, and hiring should be ...
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