March 26, 2020 – In this unending COVID-19 news cycle, it’s easy to become overwhelmed with the avalanche of information coming our way. Everything from press conferences to medical advice to miracle cures is literally at our fingertips and in our faces. With so… Read more about Pulling Together – Connected But Not Overloaded
March 20, 2020 – At Ambit Search, we have always believed that human connection – meeting people face-to-face – is essential to doing our job well. For 13 years, we have met with clients and candidates in person, sat down with them and gotten… Read more about We Value Human Connection
February 13, 2020 – In our global economy, where many companies rely on manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors outside of their own backyard, the corona virus has likely raised questions and concerns among your employees. They won’t be looking to you for health-related answers, but… Read more about Corona Virus – Managing in the Age of Global Viruses
May 7, 2019 – In his book Thinking Fast and Slow, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman described an example of what is known in psychology as the ‘framing effect’. Hospital patients were faced with a choice of whether or not to have a… Read more about Framing Your Experience – Some Thoughts on Resumes and Cover Letters
March 8, 2018 – It’s a day that causes me to reflect both personally and professionally on the progress that women have made particularly in the past few decades. There have been great strides and while there is still some distance to go,… Read more about International Women’s Day…reflecting on progress.
June 8, 2017 – As London gets going again after a series of terrorist attacks these last weeks, there is mounting political pressure from its government to get Big Tech to play a hand in stopping attacks before they happen. This is not only,… Read more about When the finger’s pointing at you
May 24, 2017 – Sir Alec Issigonis, the Anglo-Greek car designer (if you happen to be a car aficionado, it is he of Morris Minor fame) once quipped that ‘a camel is a horse designed by a committee’. You might feel that this is… Read more about Making Executive Decisions
May 11, 2017 – In 1978, The New York Times wrote that a degree from Harvard Business School was a ‘golden passport to life in the upper classes’. Plus ça change. Every year, HBS vies for the top position in the various global rankings… Read more about The Golden Passport
April 27, 2017 – When Jes Staley took over as CEO of Barclays in 2015, there was some serious reputational damage to be undone. The bank had in recent years been hit by a series of scandals – including, most damagingly, the rigging of… Read more about References are not a formality
April 12, 2017 – In our last blog we talked about why it’s important for CEOs to understand that creativity is an essential component of any organizational culture, and why our ability to think freely, to imagine and empathize, is going to become increasingly… Read more about Leadership in the Age of Robots – Part 2