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Plane, Trains and Automobiles

I loved John Candy, the way that he would finish each of his films with that trademark guileless smile and a warmth that always said, “we’re happier together.” In the wonderful Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Dell Griffith (John Candy) and Neal Page (Steve Martin) have one meltdown after another as they try to make it home in time for Thanksgiving. And just when you think all is lost, they finally “see” each other for the first time, who they really are. It’s a beautiful moment and a great lesson for our current times. So Happy Thanksgiving, and here’s to never giving up on our American family. The final snippet of the movie…

Planes,trains and automobiles scene Scene from the movie Planes, trains and automobiles, featured by Steve Martin and John Candy. My humble tribute to Jonh Candy.

The Queen's Gambit contains one of the most important and too often forgotten lessons for successful leaders.

Leadership and The Queen's Gambit There is a moment in the Queen’s Gambit, a beautiful series on Netflix, when 20-year-old Beth Harmon, a budding chess grandmaster, returns to the orphanage where she grew up. She quietly makes her way down to the building’s empty basement where, eleven years earlier, she first met William Shaibe...

The Price of Success

When bringing on a senior leader, you want to strive for a balance of cultural compatibility and creative discomfort that generates constructive transformation coupled with improved results. Companies need to make the hard calculus. Are we prepared for some amount of disruption, perhaps the loss of some beloved, long-time colleagues, or distress associated with the upset of traditional ways of doing business, of changing lines of authority? Is the CEO or Board *really* bought in and prepared to walk over coals for a while to get to that better place? This old article is as true today as it’s ever been.

Purposeful Discomfort: How Leaders Encourage Growth Through Discomfort Your job as a leader is to make people uncomfortable. Pursuing ambitious goals, confronting significant challenges, and moving into uncharted territories—all of which leadership often entails—require people to embrace discomfort. In my new book, Leaders Open Doors, I explain that the central fun...

Our managing Partner, Bill Hoffman, with some thoughtful insight on the importance of experiences that are imprinted in youth, and how they carry though into character and career.

Looking back at a candidate’s youth is a great way to see forward. One of the most interesting and rewarding parts of placing senior technology executives is the section of the interview when I ask about the formative experiences of their youth: the experiences that manifest themselves in present-day behaviors and perspectives, and shape lifetime values. This nearl

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Senior iOS Application Developer - Trusted Force - Washington, DC - 09-02-2016 | Dice.com 09-02-2016 - [Relocation Offered]   Our firm has been retained by our oldest client, an extremely successful, global, rapid-growth and publicly t...

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Senior Oracle EBS / Cloud Sales Executive Job at 'confidential' in Greater New York City Area | LinkedIn

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Senior Android Developer - Trusted Force - Washington, DC - 08-29-2016 | Dice.com 08-29-2016 - *Relocation offered by our client. Our executive search firm has been retained to fill a Senior Android Developer position for our oldest...