Broaden executive searches.Regarding the March letter from Mason Carpenter about the international experience CEOs need to get to the top ("Global Value"): I'm I'm Contraction of I am. Our Living Language Speakers of some scattered varieties of American English sometimes use I'm instead of I've or I have in present perfect constructions, as in an executive recruiter with an international (Dutch) background, and my clients come from all industries. My team and I look for the types of individuals who are capable of creating impact from the top. More than 90 percent of my placements are Americans who have had global responsibility, yet only 20 percent have lived and worked overseas. Over the past 12 months, we have placed the general counsel for a major global institution who came from Peru, the Japanese chairman of a major technology company, and a CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. who lived in Europe for several years. However, they were hired on the basis of not only their international experience but also their awareness of and adaptability a·dapt·a·ble adj. Capable of adapting or of being adapted. a·dapt  a·bil to
change.
We in the executive search profession are too willing to stay within our comfort zone: the old-boy network old-boy network n. An informal, exclusive system of mutual assistance and friendship through which men belonging to a particular group, such as the alumni of a school, exchange favors and connections, as in politics or business: . We should set the course in attracting the unexpected, rather than present the usual suspects. Even with the recent high turnover in the executive suite, it's amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. to see the familiar faces as companies make safe bets. All too often, it seems, our profession is more inclined to review databases of known entities than to conduct original research. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , the establishment is still the establishment. Frank Smeekes Vice President A.T. Kearney Chicago |
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