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Wise Leadership & AI: Making Friends with the Machines
1 - We can see AI as a talent management task: putting the right ‘mind’ on the right job Machine talent is best at rapidly identifying patterns in big data. Human talent, at identifying complex,...Read More
Intelligent Automation: How will it affect you and your organization?
Amrop Interview with Mike Hobday, SVP Europe, AntWorks By Patrique Habboo Highlights and insights The Big Picture Technology has only just begun to change your workplace, your work, how you do...Read More
Digitization on Boards III: The View From the Frontlines
The digital picture is out of focus and multiple questions still surround its purpose and implementation. As one CDO told Amrop: “Amazon is eating up our market share every day. We still protect our...Read More
Wise Leadership & AI: Behind the Scenes of the Machines
Is AI set to out-smart us? What could the road from smart Artificial Intelligence to Artificial General Intelligence look like? Will it lead to wise decisions? In this 3rd article in our series...Read More
The Case for Sustainable Board Evaluation
The core issue is how to transcend conformity or box-ticking in board evaluation. To move from a smart, to a wise approach. Asking whether as a Board you’re satisfied with sticking to the letter of...Read More
Understand the Tech and Partner Up: How Digital Helped a Legacy Multinational Become a Modern Employer
While it’s safe to say the transformation journey is always a necessary one, it is critical to design the right strategy and drive it through in tandem with the best possible IT collaborators. This,...Read More
New Adventurous Leadership
With Amrop Denmark and Nils Elmark Since the financial crisis and the launch of the smartphone, a new generation of digital companies has emerged and split the business landscape. On the old...Read More
9 Keys For Candidates Working With Executive Search Consultants
By Andrew Thomson, Partner, Amrop China He opened his laptop and scrutinized his CV — again. It ticked all the right boxes, surely? Vice President of a multinational brand in his previous role,...Read More
Wise Leadership and AI: Can We Trust AI to Tame Complexity?
Business ethicist Edward Freeman has raised this modern version of the ethical thought experiment (known as the ‘trolley problem’). How should ‘robo-ethics’ deal with situations like this? How to...Read More
Boardroom Talent: How Can Executive Search Do Better?
INTERVIEW with Eelco van Eijck, Amrop, The Netherlands, By Rino Schreuder With all this in mind, he decided to put his experiences and insights on paper, and to take a position on a number of points...Read More
Lifelong Learning: Executive Hazards Ahead - Keep your Dissonance
In this turbulent business environment, shareholders and stakeholders, in particular young leaders, are demanding that organizations are able and willing to learn. Recent research (including Amrop’s...Read More
I Am My Biggest Project: New Horizons For Executives - Chapter 4
Crises and setbacks Resilience is the ability to endure without falling apart - an elevated resistence to frustration and a spirit of self-sacrifice. Resilience also pre-supposes a vision of the...Read More
Amrop Confirmed As Executive Search Leader in Romania
Oana Ciornei is Managing Partner of Amrop in Romania and heads Amrop University, the learning platform for the consultants and staff of the global Amrop partnership. She shared with doingbusiness.ro...Read More
Energy Transition: Strategies and Insights From the C-Suite
The Paris Agreement brought the imperative for the energy transition to a head. Following the first tentative steps by governments and companies, we are now on the eve of a large- scale movement. The...Read More
I Am My Biggest Project: New Horizons For Executives - Chapter 3
New Mindset, New Beginnings And then it hits us. Nothing stops. The frenzy goes on: other people invade our territory with fresh ideas and solutions. Our newfound stardom, achievement and recognition...Read More
Wise Leadership and AI
New Intelligence, New Leadership 1 | New intelligence requires new leadership Any debate surrounding AI requires a re-assessment of leadership itself. Without a transformation here, AI will never...Read More
Digital Leadership in Wealth Management
By Hannes Stettler, Partner, Amrop Switzerland, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13 September, 2018. Digitization is currently surrounded by a spate of buzzwords and these are often used in a way that is almost...Read More
I Am My Biggest Project: New Horizons For Executives - Chapter 2
Personal Marketing From moving as many units as possible, contemporary marketing, like business as a whole, has moved on. Today, it’s all about sustainable, win-win relationships. Business leaders...Read More
I Am My Biggest Project: New Horizons For Executives - Chapter 1
Chapter 1: What's Stopping Me? Maria da Glória Riberio, Managing Partner of Amrop Portugal, has spent two decades interviewing and learning from business leaders. She has identified some recurrent...Read More
Personal Governance 8 - Principle 7: Reputation
CEO reputation drives organizational health In 2015, Weber Shandwick published a survey of over 1700 senior executives from around the world (“The CEO Reputation Premium, Gaining Advantage in the...Read More
Case Study: New Supervisory Board in the Fast-Changing Postal Sector
The reforms would have clear implications for Ukraine’s national postal operator, Ukrposhta. A 100% state-owned entity reporting to Ukraine’s Ministry of Infrastructure, Ukrposhta operates a fleet of...Read More
Joining Forces: What happens when the CEO and CHRO work hand-in-hand?
When Lars Met Jouko With its origins in the 13th century, Stora Enso is one of the world’s oldest companies. Ten years ago, the pulp and paper industry which comprised its core business was slipping...Read More
The Age of No Age: It’s all in the eye of the beholder
The western world looks at the span of working life in the same terms as ideas developed after the Industrial Revolution: work means pain, suffering, and being steadily worn out. The ideal of early...Read More
Cash or Continuity? When the investors come knocking
In this article the Amrop Board Services Practice and corporate governance specialist Peter Verhezen re-visit assumptions of ‘shareholder primacy’ and its link with fiduciary duty. We find out how...Read More
Are Boards Ready For Digital Disruption? Digitization on Boards 2nd Edition
To what extent is digital an agent of change for your organization? Should you continue with business as usual? Or deliberately engineer digital into specific parts of your supply chain? Should...Read More
Welcome to the Flight Deck - The Human Dimension of Globalizing Mid-Caps
The report, conducted in cooperation with IMD, represents A deep exploration of the world of globalizing mid-caps. Based on 83 in-person interviews with C-suite leaders from every continent, at top...Read More
Management Versus Leadership
Leadership Magazin, Expertenforum, no 1/2, January/February 2018 With Günther Tengel, Managing Partner of Amrop Jenewein in Austria.   The next 15 years will change our society and with it all the...Read More
Best Friends, Toughest Opponents
By MICHAEL KÖTTRITSCH, Die Presse, Management und Karriere, February 17/18, 2018#W With Günther Tengel, Managing Partner of Amrop Jenewein in Austria   A huge re-learning lies ahead: In the morning,...Read More
Competence Profiles Versus People
Interview by KARIN BAUER, der Standard, Austria, January 27/28, 2018 With Günther Tengel, Managing Partner of Amrop Jenewein in Austria STANDARD: What is digitization changing, in the consulting...Read More
The New Shape of Work: Why the Only Way Up is No Longer Up
The prospect of ‘more of the same’ is unappealing, and for different reasons. For millennials, the ‘career for life’ is becoming an irrelevance, and many corporates no longer offer one. Many senior...Read More
Personal Governance 7 - Principal 6: Personal Interests and Passions
Outside their professional framework, too few senior executives set aside enough time for family and friends, let alone for deep personal interests or passions. It follows that just as few are...Read More
Cyber Security: Data Privacy
Cyber continues to dominate headlines - and rightly so. Not only is the topic wide-ranging, but cyber attacks are mushrooming daily, unconstrained by geographic or sectoral borders. Like so many of...Read More
Amrop Life Sciences: When Talent and Business Strategies Align
 The Steps to High Performance 1 - Earn a Seat at the Table The root causes for the misalignment between people and business goals are deceptively simple. They usually center on two things. First,...Read More
The Art of the Real: An Interview with Tony Schwartz
In the course of the company’s success, Schwartz has worked closely with the leaders of legacy firms, mid-caps and unicorns, from Google and Facebook to Coca Cola, and across sectors as disparate as...Read More
Amrop 40th Anniversary: 4 Decades of Leadership
This year, Amrop celebrates its 40 year anniversary. This marks a milestone in an exciting journey – one which Amrop has proudly shared with our clients and candidates, some of the world’s most...Read More
Wising Up: Smart Decisions or Sustainable Decisions?
How Can Business Regain the Trust it Has Lost? Why do smart business leaders so often get it wrong? How could they make more ethical, responsible and sustainable decisions? Decisions that are not...Read More
Return on Character Pays Off
INTERVIEW by Karin Bauer, Der Standard, Austria, March 2017 With Günther Tengel, Managing Partner of Amrop Jenewein in Austria   STANDARD: The leaders of the future are educated in business schools...Read More
Personal Governance 6 - Principle 5: Personal Development
As an executive search consultant and management coach, I see senior managers mainly emphasizing professional experience as a way to round out academic foundations, supplemented at best by a short-...Read More
Customer Experience 2017: Retail Executives Deliver Their Verdict
With the organizational journey to excellence in CE still in its early stages, retail and consumer organizations have a significant opportunity to stand out among their peers. Questions Surround...Read More
From Disruption to Daylight: How leaders are travelling the digital change curve
Empty Seats According to Amrop’s 2016 report: Digitization on Boards, an absence of digital literacy and digitally innovative thinking spans the 110 largest stock listed companies in Europe and North...Read More
The Challenging Role of Chairs
The Challenge of the Black Box Success Can Breed Secrecy Your CEO is a star and the company is cash rich. This is precisely the time a good Chair should raise questions, says Svein Ruud, Amrop Board...Read More
New Leadership: The Perfect Candidate, Please
What leadership qualities are now being sought by organizations in transition? How can good ‘search governance’ ensure that the very best are identified and attracted, beyond the most obvious...Read More
Talent Advisor: Job Descriptions Will Disappear - A Press Interview
INTERVIEW by Karin Bauer, Der Standard, Austria    7 November 2016 STANDARD: The rules of the game in executive search have changed tremendously. There is a big gap - a great many people who are no...Read More
The Great Executive Rebrand: How Top Executives Are Rediscovering Their Core
But now, instead of offering a simple makeover, a new breed of executive coaches are seeking out the real you, warts and all, to make that the centrepiece of your next career move. They refrain from...Read More
3D Printing: Is Germany in Need of a Re-boot?
Nor are the skeptics convinced by the machine manufacturers' predictions of faster processes. As a result, a spirit of reluctance now haunts Germany’s supply chain, a nation that only three years ago...Read More
Case Study: Independent Directors in Chile
It is the task of these Pension Funds companies to nominate Independent Directors for the 19 listed organizations in which they have invested. Amongst them are Chile’s top 10 in terms of market...Read More
Ireland: Planting Seeds That Could Feed The World
In response, Irish farmers and agri-processing companies are busy investing and innovating. High consumer confidence, Ireland’s 2013 exit from its bailout program, falling oil prices, a strengthening...Read More
Personal Governance 5 - Principle 4: Pressure and Stress, Coping and Coaching
But senior executives get very little sympathy for personal stress. When in 2011 the embattled CEO of Lloyds Banking Group took time out due to fatigue, the British newspaper The Guardian cited a...Read More
Amrop India Series: What's Next in Education?
Learning a Private Lesson Private players were quick to spot an opportunity at K12 level (primary and secondary education), and international schools sprang up across the country. Today, a new...Read More
What’s Next in Turkey? A New Leadership Model For a Connected Age
Turkey - a New Economic Giant? Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs Chairman who coined the term ‘BRIC’, now presents ‘MINT’ (including Turkey) as the acronym for the “next economic giants.” In a...Read More
Strategic Leadership Assessment in a New Acquisition Process: A Case Study
The Context In February 2016, Polaris Private Equity (”Polaris”) announced that it had acquired 65% of the shares in the Danish software company Configit A/S: “The company has tripled its revenue in...Read More
Nominations Committees: A User Guide
An edited version of this article first appeared in Ethical Boardroom Magazine, Winter Edition 2016 Please also see the Amrop article “Raising the Bar for the Nominations Committee”   With Amrop's...Read More
Sequential Thinking is a Must
INTERVIEW by Michael Köttritsch, Die Presse, Austria, February 15, 2016 Not to put too fine a point on it: it takes heavyweight talent to build an excellent talent program. No trivial task, even for...Read More
Digitization on Boards: Amrop's 2016 Report
Digitization on Boards is Still in its Infancy. 36% of Board Members in Technology Companies Have Digital Competencies. Unsurprisingly, technology posts the biggest proportion of digital NEDs....Read More
Personal Governance 4 - Principle 3: Self-Reflection, Self-Assessment, Self-Regulation
It’s hard to see things in a new light if we don’t know what our resources are. Or when anxieties and self-protection needs stop us seeking help or feedback. Not only does this hinder our personal...Read More
Boards: Embracing Technology is About Innovation
On one level, it is simple: technology expertise is not just IT expertise. It is more the ability to view the future of a business through a technology lens. Trends such as big data, cloud computing...Read More
A Case of Globalization: Building the Future II - Building a Culture that Drives Agility
It started as a small cog in a very large machine. Pramod Bhasin, Head of GE Capital’s Asian operations, led a twenty-person team to launch a pilot project that he had conceptualized – running the...Read More
The Re-Invention of Office Space: When Strategy Becomes Physical
A Leadership Challenge Open Offices Can Create Walls After over a decade of accepting ‘open plan’ offices as the new virtue, it has become more complicated. In The Transparency Trap (2014), Harvard...Read More
Personal Governance 3 - Principle 2: Ethical Behavior
“Managers with good personal governance have a highly-developed awareness of their own value systems and ethically responsible behavioral principles.” Personal Governance links ethics with the way we...Read More
Crossing Over: The Role Transition From Consulting to Corporate
More than ever, corporates seek transformative leadership. Robust strategies must be efficiently designed and executed, engaging employees with measurable results. On the Professional Services side,...Read More
Personal Governance 2: Life Plan and Goals
The Life Plan is a Holistic Plan In this second part of our series on Personal Governance, we explore Principle I: Life Plan and Goals. While we address the individual manager, the concepts and tools...Read More
Smart Factory, Smarter Leaders: Conversations with the C-Suite
A Three Year Journey In April 2011, summarizing the recommendations of the German Government’s Industry 4.0 Taskforce at the Hannover Messe, three leaders from industry, politics and science...Read More
Viewpoint: Why Managers Leave Companies
INTERVIEW by KARIN BAUER, Der Standard, Austria, May 27, 2015 STANDARD: Complaints are piling up - out of many companies in diverse sectors. Nothing is being decided. A finding you share? TENGEL:...Read More
Nominations Committee: Raising the Bar
Both regulatory and shareholder pressure on any Nominations Committee may well depend upon its company’s listed status or on its geographical location. This may influence the need for independent...Read More
A Case of Globalization: Building the Future - Turning a Downturn into a Catalyst for Growth
When a long-established company faces a sudden crisis in its sector, a fight for survival may rapidly follow, calling its business model into question. A globalization strategy, combined with an...Read More
Personal Governance I: The Cornerstone of Corporate Governance and Leadership
Strong and sustainable Corporate Governance can only happen if those in charge of organizations can demonstrate solid Personal Governance, argues Fredy Hausammann, Managing Partner, Amrop Switzerland...Read More
The Leadership Contract
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Mobile Payments - New Market, New Leaders
Executive Summary   New Market Our interviewees are still at the discovery stage in the MP business For mobile devices to become standard for financial transactions, open-mindedness will be key...Read More
Omni-Channel Retailing Champions
From Transaction to Journey To connect with all customer journey touchpoints in customer journey, retailers must revisit their functional infrastructure to create a process-oriented, omni-channel...Read More
Mining: Quest for Talent - Shifts, Stakes and Strategies
Today, the industry is engaged in a battle for key resources. Not only for minerals, but for the talent that will secure its future. Until relatively recently, dealmaking was seen as a key to...Read More
Leadership and the Brain III: Brain Olympics
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Leadership and the Brain II: A New Tool for Agility
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Low Cost, High Stakes: Motivational Strategies for Hiring and Onboarding
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The Courage to Change: Enhancing CEO Succession Through Stronger Board Leadership
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Watching Me, Watching You: The Hidden Stakes of Leadership Assessment Post-M&A
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State Capitalism: A Transformational Tale From the Heart of Europe
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Make or Break - Why Transition Coaching is Critical for Incoming Executives
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Leadership and the Brain: A User's Guide to Empathy
Over the last few million years, we have developed such a large cortex (modern brain) in comparison to the deeper, older regions of the brain that we are less in touch with our instinct and with non-...Read More
The New CHRO: Balancing, Designing, Leading
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Board Evaluation: A Shareholder's Guide
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Board Seeks New CEO: How to Transform a CV into a Compelling Boardroom Presentation
After a longstanding career, it may be time for a senior executive to find a powerful alternative to the CV. With 20 years’ senior management experience and as a seasoned executive search consultant...Read More
From Transaction to Transformation: 16 Trustbuilding Keys for Hiring Companies & Search Firms
Over the past 40 years, Amrop has witnessed considerable evolution in the executive search domain. From somewhat secretive beginnings, into a recognized professional practice. From ‘black books’ and...Read More
Be the Catalyst: 8 Ways for Independent Directors to Be a Positive Force for Change
Should Independent Directors stand still, remain passive and not rock the boat? Or should they act as true catalysts for change? How can they concretely exercise effective participation on the Board...Read More

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