Recently in Leadership Recruitment Category

In addition to my day job advising health care leaders, I have a shadow life recruiting senior physician leaders (in addition to blogging here). So you can imagine the delight when my favorite source of blog content (the Harvard Business Review) published The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad with tips and principles for filling senior level positions - aimed squarely at the global corporate market. Reading the original will be very useful for you. And by applying standard Health Care Leadership Blog wizardry, this well written piece can be transformed into a sensible set of (albeit scaled down) insights for health care leaders to consider when on the prowl for talent...

The March 16 issue of Business Week features a profile of Ford's CEO. Alan Mulally: The Outsider at Ford,. At a time when there is plenty to say about the auto industry and its executives, the author, David Kiley, instead focuses this piece on the risks and benefits of bringing an outsider into a position of substantial responsibility. In December of 2006, when Mulally was brought from Boeing to lead Ford, the company was already on the ropes. A risky time for a controversial choice. It's also a familiar dilemma for health care leaders when considering a critical recruitment...