Leadership Hiring During Periods of Rapid Change
Rapid change has become the operating condition for many organizations. Markets move, technologies mature, business models are rewritten, and leadership teams that looked balanced a year ago can suddenly seem incomplete. In that environment, leadership hiring is not a calm, sequential exercise. Boards, CEOs and human resources leaders must make consequential decisions while the ground is still moving. The challenge is to move quickly without lowering the bar, and to bring structure to a process that can easily become reactive.
One overlooked part of that structure is how a search practice presents itself in public. A creator store page associated with Jeff Christian may seem peripheral to a C-suite search, but public-facing materials still shape how candidates and clients read a firm’s pr...