The author suggests that executive search practitioners would be naïve to believe that the revolution being enacted within their clients’ businesses will not ultimately embrace them. More pointedly, it is argued that supporting the client’s quest to create value for its customer base will,...

Suggests that building a network of business contacts can help achieve managerial success. Focuses on counterparts in other organisations, informal relations with customers and meeting with superstars in the industry. Comments on how to identify and approach potential contacts including friends,...

The rate of change in the business environment is making managerial work more complex. Complexity not only changes the way managers think but invariably demands enhanced managerial skills in developing subordinates such that they are able to deal with the new realities. Coaching initiatives and...

This article is the second in a two‐part series. The first outlined why coaching is an imperative, the forces that create complexity, and the need to identify the behaviour that has to change as a critical first step in the coaching process. Part 2 explores the need for a coaching model;...

Describes the approach to replacement and succession planning successfully used by the human resource function of a Canadian packaging group. The approach is based on the evaluation of seven essential behavioural characteristics for managers as criteria separately for replacement (today) and...

Changing organisations is not only challenging but all too often a time when the newly hired manager has a high propensity to fail. One critical dimension of success in a new job ‐the relationship with the boss – is explored, outlining five critical aspects of building this relationship.

Building on a metaphor first coined by Lynch and Kordis, outlines the roles enacted during organizational change. Overlays the roles of “shark”, “carp” and “dolphin” against a unique change model, the power of which resides in alignments between underlying responsiveness,...

International competition, the rapid pace of technological development, the escalating cost of research and development, truncated shelf life, the ability through information technology to evaluate the cost of poor quality, abbreviated product development cycles, all combine to create an...

The past decade has seen a plethora of approaches on how to respond to the changing times. All are meaningful, but useless unless alignment is an underlying theme. What is the essence of alignment? What is it that organizations do to create alignment? Examines the history of organizations with a...