Most failed senior hires were not bad hires. They were bad landings. What separates onboarding a leader from orienting an employee, the pre-start window almost everyone wastes, what the first 30 and 90 days should produce, and the signals that tell you early it is going wrong.
Read the piece, 12 minutes →Working backwards from a January start explains why a search that begins in the autumn is usually already late. Realistic search and notice timelines, the December dead zone, why the first quarter is a retention risk, and what to do if you have left it too long.
Read the piece, 11 minutes →The candidate you wanted most is the one most likely to leave the process, and it is usually not about money. The four points where searches lose people, why speed is the dominant variable, how counter-offers really work, and the process changes that keep good candidates in.
Read the piece, 12 minutes →Headcount plans were cut on the assumption that AI would absorb the work. It absorbed tasks, not roles, and the seats are coming back with different specifications. What changed in the job, which profiles are now scarce, and how to write a specification that reflects the work as it is now done.
Read the piece, 12 minutes →Some searches cannot be public: a build the market should not see coming, a replacement the team has not been told about. How a confidential mandate is run, where these searches leak, why passive executives answer, and what to ask a firm before you engage.
Read the piece, 11 minutes →The three search models are not tiers of quality. They allocate risk, exclusivity, and priority differently. A decision framework for which model fits which hire, the questions to ask before you sign, and the mistakes buyers most often make.
Read the piece, 11 minutes →Tell us about the role. We come back with a market read and a plan.
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