In a recent interview with the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Damien O’Brien, CEO of Egon Zehnder International, touches on a broad range of issues related to top-management. When asked to describe the qualities of a top executive O’Brien is careful to distinguish between good managers and great leaders. True leaders add real value and are generally .... |
A changing world economy, rising energy prices, and technology are creating several new challenges for global corporations. The latest Thought Leadership Roundtable on Digital Strategies, hosted by the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth, explored these challenges and discussed the enabling role of information technology in talent management. Chris Patrick, .... |
Today’s CEOs routinely rank an understanding of talent issues as increasingly critical to their success as chief executives. By taking the groundbreaking step of making HR a fundamental part of the grooming process for promising leaders, companies have the opportunity to better prepare any eventual CEO to win on the decisive issue of talent, and to .... |
Vacancies at two prestigious cultural institutions in the Netherlands were filled recently with the help of Egon Zehnder International, after earlier similarly important cooperations in the cultural sector. Working on a partly pro bono basis, the firm’s consultants helped find a new chairman for the Nederlandse Opera, one of the world’s leading opera .... |
