Opportunities and Challenges in 2006: A Message from Jeff Gundersen

Welcome to our inaugural issue of our new and more frequent Connections Report. Based on your feedback, we are switching from quarterly to monthly, with a shorter ezine that includes more articles and ideas on executive coaching and development, while continuing to report on executive search trends and opportunities in our core focus industries, which you have found so valuable.

The Key Challenge in 2006

As we approach the second quarter, I think all of us should take the opportunity to give one last look at our business plans for 2006 (or complete them, if we haven't already done so!). How are you going to achieve sustained growth and profitability in 2006? Full article here

Personal Branding for Maximum Leverage
Developing and managing your personal brand—practically a requirement in today’s economy—gives you greater control of your career and personal destiny, becomes an integral part of superior job performance, and reinforces the branding focus and activities of the business for which you work. The issue isn’t whether to create a personal brand, but how to go about refining and maximizing the value of the one you already have. Read the article here.

Current Search Assignments
Click here to view active search assignments on our website.

Jeff's Recommended Reading
SPARK: Be More Innovative Through Co-Creation, by John Winsor
Developing the Leader Within You, by John C. Maxwell
Time Mastery: How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You a Stronger, More Effective Leader, by John K. Clemens and Scott Dalrymple

Today's Quote

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."