THE STONEWOOD BLOG

Board Recruiting Trends

Last week’s Fortune Magazine ran an article called Lessons...

Why Selecting Leaders is So Difficult in Practice…reason # 9 – Simplicity Sells While Complexity Languishes

Many years ago, I shared office space with an international...

Generation ‘next’ and Karoshi

It’s enough to make your head spin ! Earlier this week I...

More Nonsense in the Press About Hiring as War ….

One of the reasons that hiring is so frustratingly difficult...

Advice for All of Our Fair and Foul Weather Candidates

As headhunters we interact with two categories of candidates;...

A Deadly Trap in Seed Round Ceo Searches

With all due respect to our competitors, I would venture that...

Beware the Graying Workforce

We were recently in for a shock when we undertook a search to...

Selection Update: the Love Patent

A few months ago, the press reported on a system being...

Using Polygraphs for Employment Screening – You’ve Got to Be Kidding

The National Post recently ran an article titled ‘How they...