Six-figure Learnings
Since founding ExecuNet in 1988, Dave Opton has used his 40+ years of experience in Human Resources to develop the premier career management firm for senior-level executives with salaries above $100,000.
Dave has worked with executive recruiters and six-figure leaders across all industries during his 19 years as CEO and as a result, has learned about the most effective job search and career development strategies.
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Generation A
It might seem a bit weird to be writing about hiring talent at a time when the numbers of announced job reductions seem to rise about as fast as the clock that tracks the national debt, but as bad as the employment landscape is likely to be for the next year or two, the fact of the matter is that organizations will still be looking for talent. Indeed in the current environment one could easily |
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The Current Economic Crisis: A Translation for the Rest of Us
There is an organization called HSM Global, maybe you have heard of them. They have been around for more than 20 years and among other things, produce some of the most well respected world-class business conferences on the planet. On October 16th, they hosted a conference in New York called the World Finance and Economy Summit - talk about timing! The conference featured speakers such as: |
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Mike for President
When I say Mike for president I am not talking about Jordan. Actually I'm just expressing the thought that a lot of sports fans do when they are passing accolades along about one of their idols. In this case however I am not talking sports, I am talking about America's ability to compete in the world economy - a game I think most of us would agree we cannot afford to lose and yet if you read |
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Some Purchases May Still Be Worth the Price
We continue to wade through an economic outlook that feels like trying to run through hip deep molasses and with little if any encouragement finding its way to the surface it makes neither going to sleep very easy nor waking up with a smile much of a probability. Even as this is written, out comes the Conference Board's consumer confidence index for October at 38.0 - the lowest ever. Cool. |
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The Best of Times - The Worst of Times
Be it in print or electronic, the events and the "spin" being put on the events of the past month or so are anything but uplifting. Not that the news is good by any means or that for sure we are faced with challenges from one end of the business horizon to the other. All that is true, but there is also the concept of perspective, and I have to say that is one of the things that is nice about |
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Defining Worth II
Last week I posted some thoughts which for lack of something more clever I labeled Defining Worth. The point I was trying to make was that for every executive whose DNA is made up totally of greed, there remains the vast majority of others whose approach to life is actually based on value systems that most would admire. That said, along come $400,000 boondoggles for the "heroes" of a company |
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Defining Worth
When I talk about the quality of our Roundtable discussions, those who read this blog who are ExecuNet members will understand immediately when I say that given the financial and economic turmoil boiling around us it is both educational and comforting to be able to listen to and learn from an audience that, while deeply concerned, continues to bring much needed perspective, and dare I say it - |
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Success on a Shoestring
Even with electronic media that does everything but pump you full of information intravenously at night I just can't seem to keep up with everything that either interests me or which while it may not interest me so much is nonetheless stuff that I feel I should be paying attention to anyway. All of which is the only excuse I could think of for posting something the impetus of which was driven |
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Mr. Rogers Networking Neighborhood
Like most companies, we set aside a couple of days a year to lock ourselves up somewhere out of the office and do the best we can to step back from the day to day and try and do two things: 1. Look ahead a few years and talk about where we are versus where we want to be, and 2. Make sure that our core beliefs continue to support the strategies we set for ourselves going forward. In the |
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How To Be More Likeable: 10 Things To Do Today
GL Hoffman, the "Dad" of WWDS drives me nuts. I like his stuff so much that I keep posting about it to the point where I am starting to worry that people will think that I am either a relative or on the payroll. Honest, neither of these is the case, I just like the way he writes and love his sense of humor. Okay maybe jealous of the way he writes and his sense of humor, but what the heck, |
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Managing Your Biases
Just to give you an idea of just how far behind the power curve I am these days, the article below was written and published by Pete Weddle in his June 12th newsletter. the fact that I am just getting around to sharing it in August should in no way diminish the wisdom that Pete has given to us in it. The subject in that regard is not what they call time sensitive. It is however something for |
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The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)
Is there anybody in the world of marketing who doesn't read Seth Godin's Blog? If there are, I haven't stumbled across them as yet. One of the reasons I suspect he is so popular is that among other things he has the talent to communicate ideas in words of one syllable that those of us without MBAs can both understand and relate to. Always a plus. I thought a particularly good example of |
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Where the Big Jobs Are
The economic headlines with which we are bombarded 24/7 are, as we all know, enough to make you think that we won't make it through the weekend much less the year, and given the negative spin that almost every piece of news gets, it's hard to believe that there are any positives at all. Clearly we are not living in the fantasy world that existed before the dot.com bubble burst or the delusion |
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Work-Life Balance: Not Just a Phrase Anymore
Work-life balance has been getting a lot of ink in recent times, and a tough job market nothwithstanding, it looks like it is going to continue to get plenty more. I saw some "early return" stats the other day that came from a survey (still in progress so far as I know) sponsored by the AESC (Association of Executive Search Consultants). For those who may not know, AESC is a well known and |