Author’s Blog
In his blog Bob Olin shares his thoughs about Executive Search, Career Change Management,
Job Search, Recruiting Trends and a wide array of other Recruiting related topics.
As the total number of pages of the blog articles are almost 150, we have now on the readers’ request also collected
them in an Executive Blog Summary, an easy-read, easy-use eBook publication.
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Why is it so difficult to implement a company’s strategy?
The "distance" between an individual employee's daily work and the company's strategy is often long. In my view, both still reflect the same thing within the company, like the two sides of a coin. If these two sides, these two different "worlds" do not meet, if one...
Could I become a company board director?
In senior management positions, you are often requested to have previous experience of a similar level/type of positions, so also at the board level. Still, everyone comes to a board position in their turn for the first time, and then there will certainly be plenty of...
Leadership vs leadership styles
No one's leadership philosophy is set in stone. For me, leadership, or the leadership style, always starts with the person himself. A person's values, personality, goals, work experience, perspective, etc., lay the foundation for their personal leadership philosophy....
The makings of a good leader
Perhaps some have been given a better genetic capacity to develop into good leaders, but this is no guarantee that they will become good leaders or will ever want to become "leaders" of anything. As a child, we want to become police officers, astronauts, supermen, bus...
Training, Knowledge and Information sharing
One might easily think this is only an employer issue, but it is not. It is a two-way street. On the practical level, this is always about a person-to-person interaction where both must be active and make an effort. If things are done rightly, this is a win-win...
Why do people land the wrong job? Why do companies hire the wrong person?
Mostly things go well in a recruiting process, but sometimes the recruiting fails. Anyone can make a mistake. Sometimes both parties simultaneously make mistakes in the process. When so, the mistakes can “compound”, increasing the likelihood of a bad outcome in the...