Executive Summary The Senior Director of the Success EDGE Lean Business System is a newly-created permanent executive position at Success Academy Charter Schools. The Senior Director will collaborate with executives and team members across the enterprise to design, create and implement our client’s new Lean business management system, similar to [...]
In the world of high-end recruiting there are many ways to score professional level talent. One of the more interesting approaches is what a small group of search consultants term lean executive recruiting. Adam Zak, principal and co-founder of Adam Zak Executive Search, was one of the very first to embrace lean recruiting more than [...]
You, the client, pay a critical role in the executive recruiting process. I’d like to share some thoughts about partnering with Adam Zak that I think you’ll find helpful. Keep us regularly and clearly informed about anything related to the search that you want to keep confidential. We’re always discreet [...]
Problem identification and problem solving require very focused and specific thinking. The strongest Lean leaders start with extensive observation and then engage in deep thought in their effort to engage with the current state, examine the issues, postulate ways in which they might address those issues, and then, of [...]
Culp again demonstrates the Lean leadership acumen, his attention to the important stuff...
Vice President, Manufacturing Operations $40 mm Tier One - Privately-Held Highly Specialized Manufacturer – Automotive Components Port Huron, Michigan We’re recruiting a Linchpin Leader! (linch·pin /ˈlin(t)SHpin/ noun - a person or thing vital to an enterprise or organization). Executive Summary New executive search for VP Manufacturing Operations. Newly created role; [...]
We're conducting an executive search for a new Vice President, Operations at Bristol Compressors International LLC. With customers like Carrier, Johnson Controls, Scotsman, Manitowoc and many others around the globe, Bristol is one of best-known and highest quality manufacturers of commercial and residential HVAC compressors. We’re recruiting a VP Operations who [...]
Finding the right candidate, one who can deliver material impact on your company’s operational and financial results, means identifying and engaging exceptional candidates. Wouldn’t it make sense that selecting the right headhunter for the job will make a material difference in how that all turns out? Who is actually going [...]
I recruit Lean executives. When people ask, that's what I tell them. Yet I find that a surprising number of folks still hold at least a few misconceptions about what that really means. Since you're reading this it's unlikely that you're among them, but just in case... Lean is a [...]
In one of his recent posts, What’s Your Lean Provenance? Bob Emiliani writes about people who like to brag about when they first learned about Lean or who they learned it from. I've met some of these individuals, folks who want to show off how close they were to the beginning ("I worked [...]