The August Newsletter Arrives

Our August Newsletter has been delivered to your inbox.  Thank you to all of our subscribers for reading our newsletter every month.  We appreciate all of our subscribers.  This month’s topics are the corporate ladder and strategic conversations.

In our first article “Corporate Ladder“ we try to provide good insight about what the corporate ladder looks like today compared to the traditional corporate ladder that has been in place since the industrial revolution.  It is very different.  We would like to hear from you to let us know what the corporate ladder looks like in your company.

We talk about strategy, creating strategic plans, thinking strategically but what does this really mean?    Our second article gives you some suggestions for actually having strategic conversations so that all these strategic plans do not become shelf documents.

As always, we would like to hear from you — what do you think of our newsletter?  Are there any topics you would like to us to tackle?  Some of our favorite topics have been suggested by our readers.

Hope you enjoy our Newsletter.

Emergency Succession Plan – Do you have one?

In our November newsletter, we have written an article on creating an emergency succession plan.  Yes, emergency succession plan.  When most people think of a succession plan, they think of a long-term succession plan to eventually replace the CEO/President of the company.  But what will you do if your CEO/President or your Chief Information Officer meets with a sudden, unexpected accident while enjoying their favorite hobby?  Who will fill in during the next 8 months while they focus 100% on regaining their health?

You don’t think it can happen to your company?  Well, on October 25th Steve Odland, chairman and CEO of Office Depot, suddenly resigned.  On October 26th, Robert Benmosche, CEO of American International Group, Inc. announced that he was diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing “aggressive” chemotherapy.  If it can happen to these large, well-known companies, it can happen to anyone.

I can help you with your succession plan – emergency and long term plans.  Many of  our articles are written because we have discussed the topic with our clients.  For example, we are routinely asked to help with succession planning, strategic hiring of available top performers, the interview process, the hiring decision and the on-boarding process.  Yes, we are executive recruiters and we do specialize in recruiting those hard-to-find high impact executives but we like to partner with our clients and teach them to really use all of our expertise for maximum impact.  We want to help make every single one of our clients successful whether that is to help you to hire the right person or bring you information that will help you to be a stronger leader.

I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you.  In our October newsletter, we published our offer to send one of our free E-books entitled Promote Internal or Hire External Candidate? to everyone who sent us a request.  I thank everyone who ordered it and now ask that you let me know what you think of this E-book.  Your opinion matters to us very much.  I want to continue to publish useful and interesting information.  We have decided to run this offer again in our November newsletters so we can be sure that everyone who wants to order it has the opportunity.

Also, in October we published our first installment of our Onboarding article.  We intended to publish the second part of the article in our November newsletter but decided to offer to send the entire article to those who did not want to wait.  We received so many requests for the entire article that we decided to publish it in our Quarterly State of Employment that was sent out later in the month of October.  Again, thank you for your interest and your requests for the entire article.  Let me know what you think of it.  Did you find it useful?