Executive Cross-Border Hiring: 5 Suggestions, 5 Pitfalls

Dr. Ankoor Dasguupta notes that with nearly half of global hires now from emerging markets, cross-border executive recruitment can catalyze transformation or trigger costly misalignments. Unpack 5 strategic suggestions—like anchoring in strategy and prioritizing contextual intelligence—and steer clear of 5 pitfalls, including the “global savior” fallacy and ignoring the human toll, to build agile, culturally elastic leadership. Explore the suggestions and pitfalls here.

Seagull Management – Stay Away from this Structure!

Colin Thompson warns: Imagine your organization undergoing five medical procedures at once—each succeeds, but the “patient” dies of shock! That’s the peril of “seagull management,” where leaders swoop in, dump changes, and fly out. Explore why managing the dynamics of change through a dedicated Transition Management Team is key to winning hearts, aligning efforts, and ensuring lasting success in knowledge-driven companies. Transform your change strategy and avoid the pitfalls—check out the insights now.

When Boards Think Better: The Cognitive Advantage of Women in Corporate Governance

In today’s turbulent business landscape, Dr. Ankoor Dasguupta explores how homogeneous boards are a liability—discover how women’s unique cognitive perspectives disrupt groupthink, enhance risk oversight, and drive superior decisions through epistemic friction and deeper deliberations. Backed by global evidence, learn why reaching a threshold of three or more women transforms governance from affirmation to examination, fostering resilience and innovation. Dive into the cognitive advantages reshaping corporate leadership—read the full article here.

The Benefits of Hiring a Fractional Executive

Companies are increasingly open to hiring executives in more innovative ways. Be that hiring in candidates from abroad, or opting for part-time or fractional C-Suite hires. Here’s an interesting look at that particular trend… Open Blog Post

Who Is Driving the Great Resignation?

One of the most pressing issues for CEOs and senior leadership teams right now is “The Great Resignation”. From both the perspective of retaining staff and of attracting new hires to fuel growth, understanding the scale of this trend and how to counter it is a key boardroom issue. Some interesting data here from Harvard Business Review… Open Blog Post

Let Us Help With Your Next Critical Hire

Our latest testimonial comes from a client in India, who praises our transparency and enthusiasm in helping them to find a CEO. Read about their experiences and contact us today for help with making your next critical executive hire… Read Testimonial

Hiring Executive Talent Remotely

How can you improve your gender balance and hire executive talent remotely? Could hiring Interim-to-Perm allow you to attract great C-Suite candidates? Here’s what we learnt from interviewing Ghislaine Couvreur, who has recently been placed as a CEO in a swiss company in the AI sector.

3 CEOs Who ‘Get’ Gender Balance – And Build It

Want to improve Gender Balance at the most senior levels of your company? If so, this is a fascinating discussion with 3 CEOs who’ve been striving for this – and the biggest questions they feel you need to tackle… Do companies and leaders really buy the ‘WHY’ of gender balance? Do they understand ‘WHAT’ is currently going on in their organisations that creates and perpetuates imbalances? Plus ‘HOW’ do you successfully implement balance – without a big backlash and lots of resentment from men?

It’s Time for Tech Recruiters to Walk the Diversity Talk

What is the biggest barrier to improving your diversity hiring? 49% of recruiters say that finding diverse candidates to interview is the most significant challenge. Whether you’re recruiting at executive level or more mid-level ranks, overcoming this challenge is key. Some good ideas in this SHRM article to consider – and if you need help improving your executive level diversity hiring specifically do get in touch.

Wishing you a successful week

Patrick and the teams of CEO Worldwide and Female Executive Search