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How a Board Search Firm Can Support Organizations

N2Growth Blog

Here’s how a global executive search firm can ultimately allow a Board to operate at its peak performance and empower it to realize its most ambitious goals. But the way global executive search firms execute this process is precise, specialized, and leads to elite results that are challenging to match otherwise.

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Millennials Speak! 5 Future Leadership “Must Haves”

Marshall Goldsmith

You need an “equal say” in your company’s future leadership. Those companies are much less likely to find the best and most comprehensive leadership qualities and candidates, because they are limiting their view of the world. My proof is based upon work between Accenture Consulting (with the Alliance for Strategic Leadership).

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How To Increase Profits Through Gender-Balanced Leadership

Eric Jacobson

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. Identify and communicate criteria for successful leadership.

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Boards Aren’t as Global as Their Businesses

Harvard Business Review

One of the most important of those issues is, of course, globalization. As Egon Zehnder’s just-released 2014 Global Board Index found, 37% of the revenue generated by companies in the S&P 500 now comes from international sources, an increase of 5.5% But are the boards of these companies similarly “globalized”?

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Multicultural Leadership Starts from Within

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center, The Next Generation of Global Leaders. Multicultural leadership involves deep immersion within different cultures to understand their values and specific context. Focus recruiting efforts to bring diverse, multicultural candidates into the company. The world is getting smaller.

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Study: Firms with More Women in the C-Suite Are More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

In a new Peterson Institute for International Economics working paper , we present the results of our survey of nearly 22,000 firms globally. Their lack of gender diversity affects the bottom line. So why do women remain hard to find in the corporate boardroom and the C-suite? of Japanese C-suite executives were women.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries. Leaders who had access to global and more visible experiences are more likely to advance.

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