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Short, Medium, and Long-Term Career Management

To be a successful executive, managing your career well is imperative. While many executives rely on their employers to manage theirs, taking charge of your own future should be done strategically.

Seven Tips on Leaving a Job With Grace and Positivity

Your past experiences with the old company shall serve as a strong foundation for the future position. Moreover, you still have your former boss and colleagues’ support whenever you need them in the future. Be graceful and stay positive.

Myths and Facts of Being and Authentic Leader

Every leader should be aware of the privilege that being a leader brings to others and the team. By growing yourself authentically, you are providing them with an opportunity to move forward and learn together. An authentic leader is a learner, facilitator, mediator, and solution provider, after all.

Leading an Offshore Team in Mexico

Managing an offshore team in Mexico is both a rewarding and a challenging position. As long as you do your research in advance to understand the leadership and communication styles better, you should be fine.

The Advantages of Manufacturing in Mexico

Manufacturing Mexico allows American companies to save costs and use a greater portion of their profits for research and product development. This, in return, would increase more production to be manufactured in Mexico. The maquiladora industry provides Mexico with good employment, economic stability, and foreign exchange. A win-win relationship.

5 Reasons Why You Should Switch to the Rare Servant Leadership

The combination of personality traits that would make up the “servant leader” cannot be found easily among available candidates or, even, the world’s population. It requires a heightened level of awareness to make it work. Some organizations even train candidates for such qualities.

Coming Full Circle When a Key Recruiting Sector Is Down

One search firm with a front row seat to both the energy sector and its impact on talent is Houston-based Alder Koten.

Five Ways to Effective Multicultural Leadership

According to leadership expert Juana Bordas, in today’s globalized world, multicultural leadership combines influences, practices, and values of the diverse culture in a respectful and productive manner. It also requires awareness on various situations, contexts, and assumptions.

Five ways that a commitment-based leader can improve the execution process

commitment-based leadership is a leadership style that works by commitment-based management, where an organization is driven by the quality and fulfillment of explicit network of commitments made between people in the organization and their customers. And there are five ways that a commitment-based leader can improve the execution process

Leading by Example, Is It Enough?

Here are five things to do for leaders who lead by example while also cultivating new leaders meaningfully.

Jose Ruiz will chair the Association of Executive Search Consultant’s boutique and independent firm forum

The Ultimate Executive Career Guide by AESC’s Blue Steps

BlueSteps, the executive career service of the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC), has created The Ultimate Executive Career Guide to provide senior-level executives with everything they need to know about how to manage their career.