Articles & Resources

A collection of published talent acquisition articles, founder stories, and other musings from my 30 years in the executive search business.

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How Executive Search Pro’s Hire

What does it take to make a great C-Suite hire? You have to know what you’re looking for, choose carefully, and make strategic hires rather than making emotional decisions or impulse hires. When you think you have found what you’re looking for; maybe you have, maybe...

The Founders Mindset

Founders are different. They are the ones that start businesses and enterprises. To them, risk is part of the deal. Risk is relative in their minds. It doesn’t guide them. It doesn’t drive them. It just figures into their calculus. Webster defines risk as: “the...

Negotiations and Love Songs

In 1983, The great American poet and musician, Paul Simon, was going through a nasty divorce with his then-wife, Carrie Fisher. He wrote and produced the album “Hearts & Bones.” While it was an ode to his personal trauma, he coined a phrase that stayed with me all...

Articles & Resources

A collection of published talent acquisition articles, founder stories, and other musings from my 30 years in the executive search business.

How Executive Search Pro’s Hire

What does it take to make a great C-Suite hire? You have to know what you’re looking for, choose carefully, and make strategic hires rather than making emotional decisions or impulse hires. When you think you have found what you’re looking for; maybe you have, maybe...

The Founders Mindset

Founders are different. They are the ones that start businesses and enterprises. To them, risk is part of the deal. Risk is relative in their minds. It doesn’t guide them. It doesn’t drive them. It just figures into their calculus. Webster defines risk as: “the...

Negotiations and Love Songs

In 1983, The great American poet and musician, Paul Simon, was going through a nasty divorce with his then-wife, Carrie Fisher. He wrote and produced the album “Hearts & Bones.” While it was an ode to his personal trauma, he coined a phrase that stayed with me all...

Looking to hire the best?

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How Executive Search Pro’s Hire

What does it take to make a great C-Suite hire? You have to know what you’re looking for, choose carefully, and make strategic hires rather than making emotional decisions or impulse hires. When you think you have found what you’re looking for; maybe you have, maybe...

The Founders Mindset

Founders are different. They are the ones that start businesses and enterprises. To them, risk is part of the deal. Risk is relative in their minds. It doesn’t guide them. It doesn’t drive them. It just figures into their calculus. Webster defines risk as: “the...

Negotiations and Love Songs

In 1983, The great American poet and musician, Paul Simon, was going through a nasty divorce with his then-wife, Carrie Fisher. He wrote and produced the album “Hearts & Bones.” While it was an ode to his personal trauma, he coined a phrase that stayed with me all...

Our American Stories: The Founders – Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE American Private Radio (APR) is a non-profit (501c3) founded by Lee Habeeb. Habeeb has an extensive, successful track record in the Terrestrial Radio Business. Habeeb, under the APR umbrella,  conceived, developed, and created OUR AMERICAN...

The Intrepid Traveler

On May 7, I Ubered to PDX to board a Delta flight bound for Atlanta. The Uber driver was masked, and would not touch my bag. With no traffic, a normal 40-minute trip took 20. Upon arrival, I saw nothing. No cars, no shuttles, no people. The Delta Counter was empty; no...

Is dysfunction the norm?

The term “dysfunctional” is thrown around loosely and often. When was the last time you heard someone say, or you said: Our team is dysfunctional, or my family is dysfunctional? That implies judgment like there’s something really wrong with it, and it’s unusual. As if...

When God is driven from the public square

As God is driven from the public square, everything changes. Not only is that change predictable, but it’s almost always in the wrong direction.As God is driven from the public square, everything changes. Not only is that change predictable, but it’s almost always in...

Pay yourself FIRST

Both the Coronavirus and the ‘cure’ are breaking the back of America’s small business which is a very big deal. Small business, as defined by the Small Business Administration (SBA), is a company with less than 500 employees. In 2020, there were over 30.2 million...

Job Hunting from a Headhunter’s Perspective

Looking for a job in this era of high unemployment can be a daunting task. Herewith resides almost everything I know about hunting for a job. You would be surprised how many very smart successful people make basic mistakes while looking for a new job, adding months to...

SOCIAL MEDIA, TALENT RETENTION AND ACQUISITION

Social Media is playing a more significant role in both acquisition & retention of Senior Managers. While Social Media is universally used in the younger crowd, a quick look through Linkedin shows that Boomers are definitely participating. It’s not to be ignored....

FORD MOTOR COMPANY & LEADERSHIP

A recent article by Michael Stallard highlights 7 practices Alan Mulally, CEO Ford Motor Company, used to save Ford from Chrysler’s fate. Although one assumes financial controls, QC and other common business practices were part of the stew, the article focuses on...

LEADERSHIP MATTERS

A few years ago, a close friend and mentor called asking me to participate in a meeting with key sales executives of a company that had filed for bankruptcy, then liquidated. The stated purpose was to help them with their careers going forward. I used it as an...

Adapt, grow, innovate, or die

The Global Forest Products Industry, as an industry segment, expends vast amounts of capital on plants, equipment, market share, and resources. Within the Forest Products segment, as a primary industry, new products and product innovation come at a slow pace. Highly...

THE POWER, AND VALUE OF TRUST

The caller was British. With a hint of Dutch. He owned a smallish ($25mm) company a few hundred miles from me, and needed a CEO and Board Member. He wanted to take the lumber from the woods, bring it to the mills, make logs from it, and sell it. Clearly, it was not a...