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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 12 – An Interview with Nat Stoddard, author of The Right Leader
StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.
Special Edition 12 – An Interview with Nat Stoddard, author of The Right Leader explores the challenges and solutions to selecting executives who possess the needed skills and experiences while also being a good fit with the organization’s culture. During our discussion, Nat Stoddard, author of The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit
and Chairman of Crenshaw Associates, shares with us his insights regarding:
importance of an effective executive transition and gaps in the contemporary selection process- why hiring organizations should identify actions a new executive needs to take in addition to results to be achieved
- impact of culture alignment between the organization and new executive on the transition’s success
- steps the hiring organization should take to prepare for and execute a more effective executive selection and transition
Additional Information
Complimenting the invaluable insights Nat shares in The Right Leader and this special edition podcast are the additional resources accessible from his website, The Right Leader (www.TheRightLeader.com). Nat’s book, The Right Leader, can be purchased by clicking here.
Nat Stoddard, author of The Right Leader, is Chairman of Crenshaw Associates, a New York-based consulting firm specializing in career and transition management for senior executives. Nat is the former CEO of World Kitchen, a leading kitchen products manufacturer and former Chairman, President, and CEO of GE’s Canadian appliance affiliate Camco, Incorporated. To read Nat’s full biography, click here.
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