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What 10,000 Executive Interviews Taught Me About Hiring Leaders

The recurring failures are rarely caused by a shortage of smart people—they occur because organizations define the work poorly, collect uneven evidence, and mistake confidence...

Executive selection cannot be automated into certainty, but it can be organized so the work, evidence, risks, and decision are evaluated with consistency. Executive hiring is...

The value of an executive hire is realized only when the selection evidence becomes a deliberate 180-day plan for performance...

Executive selection improves when the hiring team stops confusing credentials, familiarity, and interview polish with evidence of readiness for the specific work. The most danger..

The org chart may look familiar long after the Work underneath it has fundamentally changed. Most companies are not going to wake up one morning and discover that the CFO, C...

Your deepest bench should sit behind the roles that matter most—not simply the highest titles. Most succession planning starts with the organization chart. CEO. CFO. COO...

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Assessments Are Evidence, Not a Verdict

Why executive assessment should improve judgment—not outsource it. Executive assessment can add tremendous value to a senior hiring decision. It can surface patterns that...

The best reference checks do not confirm the candidate. They test the investment case. By the time most companies begin checking references, the executive hiring decision has...

Why executive interviews often measure interview performance instead of role performance Some of the worst executive hiring decisions begin with a great interview. The candidate...

The best leaders don’t just do the job. They deliver the results that matter most. I’ve reviewed thousands of executive job descriptions over the course of my career...

Why a handful of leadership roles disproportionately determine whether the investment thesis succeeds. Every organization chart tells you something useful. It shows hierarchy...

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The Great CPG Redesign

Consumer packaged goods companies are not simply reducing headcount. They are redesigning the enterprise.

What $25B+ of enterprise value creation taught me about allocating leadership talent to the roles that matter most.