When the executive search process works well, it’s a beautiful, efficient machine that can change the trajectory of a company or plant as well as the individual candidate. But sometimes, we encounter a snag. My firm and I learned a painful and expensive lesson this last year. This lesson hurt me so badly and personally that it took me a long time to actually write this story and share it.
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The Headhunters have carved out a niche in placing operations leaders and building a strong record of success. In the very first discussion I have with the hiring manager CEO or private equity leadership, I always ask this primary question: Are we looking for a wartime leader or a peacetime leader? I frequently get an […]
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True story here from my first days in leadership that I have never forgotten… Over a decade ago, I was a finance leader in a company going through an ERP conversion to Oracle. It was not going well. The project was way over budget, and business conditions were declining. The CIO was sacked along with […]
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Got an old job opening? Our firm has carved out a niche performing very difficult searches that other firms, often larger ones, have either turned down or abandoned. Truth be told, this is how we grew – by doing the searches nobody else wanted. We ate the dog food people gave us, and often in […]
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The moment you find yourself micromanaging… …a direct report, alarm bells should be ringing in your head, telling you that a poor hiring decision was made. I’m a firm believer in this. That being said, this statement is made assuming you are an experienced and effective boss with a clearly and accurately written job description. (As […]
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By: Bill Wednieski Today is a watershed day for The Headhunters. We fired a client. Since our inception in late 2019, The Headhunters has always taken a “Yes” first approach. In the infancy stages of organizing this business, I came up with a simple mantra of “Anything for Money” or AFM. AFM was sort of […]
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