Value-based management, Positive Leadership, Situational Leadership or Total Quality Management. There is an overload of concepts that provide input on how leadership should be approached. The new fad is Agile Leadership. But why is Agile Leadership the new black? Unpredictability, high speed, complexity and customers demanding more value, require that some of the heavy processes…
In 2019 the IESF Global Conference took place in Montreal, Canada. We are happy to announce that Poland has been awarded for the second time in a row for the most significant number of completed recruitment projects among all member countries.
Polish C-level Manager/Director/Board Member/Execitive is a person raised in the last 30 years of the new economy – a 40-60 years old person. He has an experience of working in at least 2 organizations, however, there are also professionals whose careers are composed of e.g. 6-7 companies. Such rich portfolios result from frequent job changes…
IESF has been included in 2019 in the Global 30 by Hunt Scanlon, the list of global talent providers that now dominate the executive search business worldwide in 2019. Founded in 2002, IESF is one of the most recognized executive search associations in the world. Currently, it is composed of 19 companies highly specialised in…
StrategyQ is an on-line survey that enables HRDs to consult senior leaders and assess where their culture is enabling strategic execution or acting as a barrier. StrategyQ is available in English and Polish languages. Benefits: understand your existing business culture and the change agenda that is required to execute your strategy understand the differences…
Article by Pia Torreck Partner at Ingvardsen ll Partners and Philip Santilhano, Stud.Psych, Copenhagen University Do personality tests work in Executive Search? The answer to this question depends on how the test is implemented and which tests are being used. Despite the fact that we tend to understand personality and identity as something static and predictable,…
An article by HR BURÓ – IESF Chile. “Getting the right people on the bus in the right seats”. This quote of Jim Collins, management guru and American writer, was the most liked in HR Buró social networks during 2018. This challenge is not an easy task. Hiring is a risk, and good executives are aware of that. To match…
An article by Andréa de Paula Santos, Partner at Ascend Executive Search – Brazil. We live in a time where internet gives us unlimited access to knowledge and information, virtual communication allows the contact with diverse cultures, travelling around the world is more and more accessible and common, geographical boundaries are no barriers to access cultural, political, economic realities worldwide.…
The IESF Regional Meeting 2019 took place on March 28 and 29 and was hosted by Alessandra Conte from Alexander & Duke in Milan, Italy. There were 20 attendees from 10 countries such as Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Romania, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Israel, and Denmark. During the conference, the partners had the possibility to…