As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I have watched this play out across hundreds of executive searches, and the pattern is clear enough to write down. Companies tend to evaluate new executives either too late, after problems have festered, or […]
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As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I want to lay out what actually works here, because the gap between common practice and best practice on this topic is wide. Restructuring a leadership team, removing executive roles, is among the hardest things a […]
As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I spend much of my time on exactly this question, and the conventional wisdom around it is only half right. ESG has become a politicized acronym that obscures a simpler, durable truth about leadership. Strip away […]
As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I have watched this play out across hundreds of executive searches, and the pattern is clear enough to write down. When a board faces a CEO crisis, a sudden departure, a forced transition, a leadership emergency, […]
As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I spend much of my time on exactly this question, and the conventional wisdom around it is only half right. Relocation kills more executive deals than compensation does, yet employers consistently underestimate […]
As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I have watched this play out across hundreds of executive searches, and the pattern is clear enough to write down. Before making an executive hire, employers run the process forward, assessing whether the […]
As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, this is one of the questions employers bring me most often, and my answer has been sharpened by seeing what separates the searches that succeed from the ones that don’t. When a new executive hire starts to […]
As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I want to lay out what actually works here, because the gap between common practice and best practice on this topic is wide. Companies assume that more executives mean more leadership capacity, so they add C-suite […]
As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I have watched this play out across hundreds of executive searches, and the pattern is clear enough to write down. Every company now says it wants AI-fluent leaders, and almost none can define what that means or […]
As Global Head of Research & Leadership Advisory at JRG Partners, I want to lay out what actually works here, because the gap between common practice and best practice on this topic is wide. A senior executive is a public face of the company, and their reputation, past and […]