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ghSMART authors Shoma Hayden, Dina Wang, Elena Lytkina Botelho and Senior Editor Brad Winn have written an article "Selecting a New Leader: Data Nuggets vs. Data Noise" in SHRM's People + Strategy Journal. The study identifies four nuggets of data that are particularly salient when selecting a new CEO: 1) decisiveness, 2) adaptability, 3) engagement and inclusion, and 4) reliability.
ghSMART Partner and CEO Next Door author Elena Lytkina Botelho will speak with Forbes's Diane Brady about how businesses can scale-up by focusing on their teams. Sign up to join their conversation on February 3rd at 11am:
Read founder Geoff Smart's latest Psychology Today article outlining 3 questions you can ask yourself to help determine your ideal career path.
ghSMART is delighted to announce that we have hired and promoted several colleagues into leadership positions this year. Each of these A Players has an exceptional track record helping leaders to solve their most challenging leadership problems with confidence. Join us as we congratulate all of our new leaders, among them: Carrie Miller (O'Donoghue), who will join in January as the firm’s first-ever Chief Marketing Officer. Randy Street, who is moving into the role of Vice Chairman. Jeffrey McLean, who is moving into the role of President. Read more about the full suite of 2021 leadership promotions in our official announcement.
“We immediately recognized how valuable and unique the [ghSMART] dataset is, because it’s really personality tests for CEOs and other top managers that they have taken seriously, and which are fairly detailed.” Quote from Associate Professor Morten Sørensen in article "Are CEO's Different" in the The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Our ghSMART Europe team is growing! Welcome to the team leadership advisors Neha Aviral & Fiona Knight. Prior to joining us, Neha was a founding team member and Associate Director at The Larry Ellison Foundation, where she helped define and execute Mr. Ellison’s philanthropic vision and led the Foundation’s portfolio of philanthropic and impact investments in global education. She was formerly a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and began her career at BlackRock where she led the growth of BlackRock Solutions’ EMEA business. Fiona joins us as an Executive Director from global executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates, where she led the development of the firm’s contemporary approach to CEO assessment and specialized in complex CEO succession projects for FTSE and Fortune companies and equivalent organizations. Prior to this she worked in-house with a leading global talent solutions firm, where she served high-profile government organizations by creating robust leadership interventions fit for the complex strategic challenges they faced. Learn more about the team below:
At ghSMART, we create impact, our clients see results. Read about how our team helped a global data analytics company with their CEO succession process as part of a long-term partnership with the CEO and C-Suite.
“Crush the competition while exuding empathy” -- the contrasting demands on a modern CEO. Congrats to The University of Chicago Booth School of Business’ Steven Kaplan and University of Virginia Darden School of Business’ Morten Sørensen along with ghSMART for this data-driven research on CEO success published in The Economist.
Partner Elena Lytkina Botelho spoke with Insider, Inc. about how leaders need to consider the needs of their teams in the post-pandemic "new world."
Our Chairman and Founder Geoff Smart will be writing a regular series for Psychology Today about leadership in the workplace today. His first post dives into how Psychology can be a valuable tool for finding—and landing—your dream job:
