Blog
Through our blog posts, we share insight into our latest thinking. We strive to provide answers to the questions that are important to our clients.
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06.24.19Are You Prepared for the Top Job at Your Company?
By: Joanna E. Starek
Building or transforming a company is one of the most difficult tasks a leader can take on. It requires vision, courage, discipline, business smarts, and the capacity to build followership. It also takes tremendous energy and resilience. You have landed your dream job—the question now is whether you are up for it.
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06.18.19CEO Succession: Four Tips to Ensuring Success
By: Deborah P. Rubin
CEO succession is not an event, but a series of actions orchestrated over the course of several years. The more one anticipates the nuances and implications of early actions and those that follow, the more successful the eventual selection and transition of the next CEO.
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06.11.19Private Equity Board-Management Team Relationship—...
By: Steven Gilbert
Most relationships begin with an exciting courtship followed by a honeymoon period. Then the hard work begins. We often hear the excitement in the voices of both private equity investors and their new management teams as they focus primarily on all the wonderful opportunities that lie ahead.
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06.04.19Jim Barr, Digital & Growth Transformation Leader—...
By: David Astorino
This is the third and final part of our interview with Jim Barr, a C-level leader who has worked with iconic brands, including Ritchie Bros., an RHR client, as each struggled to adapt to changes in customer journeys. RHR Senior Partner David Astorino interviewed him.
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05.28.19Jim Barr, Digital & Growth Transformation Leader—...
By: David Astorino
This is the second part of our three-part interview with Jim Barr, a C-level leader who has worked with iconic brands, including Ritchie Bros., an RHR client, as each struggled to adapt to changes in customer journeys. RHR Senior Partner David Astorino interviewed him.
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05.21.19Jim Barr, Digital & Growth Transformation Leader
By: David Astorino
Jim Barr is a C-level leader who has worked with iconic brands as each struggled to adapt to changes in their customer journeys. In addition to driving digital transformations, Jim has been a general manager and president of several multi-billion-dollar online and omni-channel businesses.
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05.14.19Why Startups Fail: Founders are the Real Failure Risk
By: Joanna E. Starek
According to CB Insights, only 48% of seed-funded companies will raise another round. If a company secures more investment dollars, there is still no guarantee it will survive. What is happening?
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05.07.19Learning to Lead in Unlikely Places
By: Cristina Jimenez
I love to use analogies in my work, and I share with executives frequently that taking them out of their own world helps them connect to the idea of feedback in both emotional and intellectual ways, making the learning more concrete. Much of my own insights about life and leadership often come from unlikely sources and rarely from a leadership...
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04.30.19Why Feedback Matters in Top Team Performance
By: Jane Lim
The current business environment is more uncertain, fast-paced, and dynamic than ever before. In this setting, senior teams must think critically about what they can do differently or where they might improve to optimize the performance of their teams and organizations.
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04.23.19Can You Lead a Private Equity Portfolio Company?
By: David Astorino, By: Steven Gilbert
Most private equity firms have high levels of debt. They require constant attention to cash flow, spending, debt repayment, and financial targets so their companies can exit in two to five years.