Notice I'm not using the word "quit."  Quit just has too many negative connotations. So you have found a new company and a n...

A lot of our clients are calling us lately and saying "I love you guys and want to use you.  My VC's are telling me to use a specia...

Here are ten questions your recruiter should ask you if they know what they're doing and really want to compel candidates to talk to you...

We just finished our first search for a CEO in health care IT.  I can't even believe I won the search, much less closed it in well under...

People need to understand that to be effective, interviewing actually matters again.  Gone are the days of taking a first meeting to "g...

This is a blog that I'm going to splash out there, and then work on over time.  I love Citrix and want to talk about them as a model for...

I continue to get several calls a day from clients (entrepreneurs, VC's, late stage privates and public companies) saying "I need a...

I love music, am in a garage band, and am finding myself conflicted about the state of this lovely form of art, so I'd like to post a wa...

Forget the headlines you'll inevitably see over the next few weeks, months or even years.  "EU pledges solidarity.  So and so is op...

So everyone now has: 1. A BYOD or security angle. Or some hook into any of the top 3 priorities of I/T customers in pull market conditions....

I'm looking pretty hard at two finalists for a cloud CEO search. In both cases, the finalists have been CEOs before, and made money for...

Everyone's frothy right now, like a bunch of rabid dogs chasing a bone truck. There's money to be made, gold to be mined, in technol...

References are the single most critical component to any executive search and need to be conducted thoughtfully, but for reasons far beyond ...

Let's talk about Reed Hastings for a minute. Hero one day, goat the next? This guy fascinates me. We talk to Netflix employees all the...

OK so my last blog turned out right in the Leo area. Employees didn't like him, flip flopped on strategy, no one wanted the PC biz, on a...

When you think about Steve Jobs, you have to think about so many other companies where Founders have been pushed out. I have to believe it ...

So oil is at $80. Not good if you're a biofuels company but REALLY good news for everyone else. This will amount to a big windfall for...

Pretty interesting last couple of weeks with debt debate and a bunch of other going's on back in the real world (everything outside of D...

Here are five things the state needs to do in coordination with the Federal Gov't in order to "save our state" and as we all k...

So LinkedIN is back above $90, Pandora back close to $20. Very exciting for the digital media space. Very enthusiastic for our friends at ...

Interesting times....are we in pause mode? Looks like we dodged a bullet in Greece but when does the other shoe drop and another PIGS count...

We've been re-evaluating a bunch of CEO hires and looking at patterns. Who made it, and who did "just OK?" Early results are...

I've built a nice Board practice over the last couple of years and have clients ranging from $1B public companies to startups with 50 pe...

Have a very cool new client called Epocrates, a misunderstood but very exciting young company. Just went public at a solid valuation, is ab...

If you'd have told me that in 2011, two of our hottest tech clients, out of all the spaces in which we operate, were related to the disk...

It's pretty clear that $100 oil is coming back either now or in the next couple of years. I predict it will settle back down to mid 80...

I've recruited too many CEO's to count now. There are some clear do's and do not's as one joins a company. Here are 5, to ...