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Pax Gabriel believes in helping corporations strengthen their hiring ability. In addition to developing the best ideas to better our industry, we offer an expanding collection of articles and reports that deal with finding and keeping the best executive talent.

A lot of information out there on the retained executive search industry is designed to tell you how smart the partner is with an individual firm. Pax Gabriel does not create lengthy diatribes to waste your time. Instead, we provide news and executive summaries that actually assist you in hiring better talent in less time.

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- Boston Business Journal: Strategies for Effectively Recruiting Executive Talent
Despite various signs of economic uncertainty, the hiring market remains strong. Demand for accounting and finance, as well as information technology professionals, are at some of the highest levels in recent years, leading companies to re-evaluate their recruiting strategies in order to secure the best candidates.
http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2008/01/28/focus2.html

- Harvard Business School: Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
Should CEO succession processes be certified? Respondents to this month's column agree that CEO succession is badly managed, perhaps accounting in large part for the fact that few "inside outsiders" ever make it into the job, despite their often useful qualifications.
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5809.html

- Sideroad: The Best CEO - Five Defining Characteristics of a Great CEO:
Personal insight. Resourcefulness. Courage. Willingness to take a risk. Foresight.
http://www.sideroad.com/Management/best-ceo-great-ceo.html

- Pepperdine University: Choose Tomorrow's Leaders Today
Succession planning grooms firms for success.
http://humanresources.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=
humanresources&cdn=money&tm=8&f=00&tt=14&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//
gbr.pepperdine.edu/021/succession.html


- CIO: How to Identify Bad CIOs in Their Natural Habitat
Bad CIOs are a blight on the IT profession and on the organizations that employ them. The following list of behaviours common among bad CIOs will prevent you from hiring them into your organizations. If they're already there, it will give you good reason to eliminate them
http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;1546734630

- CIO: When Times Change, Leaders Obtain New Skills
CIOs today need a broader set of competencies to succeed in the C suite
http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;348180202

- Fortune: Catch a Rising Star
Top talent has never been more valuable, nor the competition for it more fierce. On these pages, we profile 12 leaders who are one step from superstardom. They're not CEOs yet, but they're on deck--at the biggest companies on the planet. Learn from them.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/02/06/8367928/index.htm

- morebusiness.com: Five Tough I.T. Questions
Thomas Trainer, CIO for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, recently told a business audience that "If I were the CEO of your company, there are five tough questions that I would be asking about my chief information officer and the activities of the I.T. function."
http://www.morebusiness.com/running_your_business/management/d935705345.brc

- cioupdate.com: How to Hire the Best CIO
These are the six things every CEO should think about before hiring a new CIO....
http://www.cioupdate.com/article.php/3565306

- cio.com.au: The Secrets of C-Suite Success
Do you have what it takes to be a strategic CIO? A CEO?
http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;1635043769;fp;;fpid;;pf;1

- CEO Forum Group: Executive On-boarding - How to Settle In a New Hire
. while a robust search and reference taking process is necessary for successful hiring, it is not sufficient to guarantee success of the new hire.
http://www.ceoforum.com.au/article-detail.cfm?cid=6266&t=/Ashley-R-Stephenson
-Edwin-H-Smelt-and-Tilman-Gerhardt--Egon-Zehnder-International/
Executive-On-boarding-how-to-settle-in-a-new-hire/


- CEO Forum Group: Changing Your CEO
Why is it difficult?
Planning for Succession: A luxury or necessity?
Tips on Succession Planning
Helpful Tips on the Executive Search
http://www.ceoforum.com.au/article-detail.cfm?cid=8816&t=
/Neil-Waters--Egon-Zehnder-International/Changing-your-CEO/


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