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Gentleman Posing With Many Different Uniforms.

The Value of Being a Generalist

  • 10/21

Business leaders, in their zeal to succeed, often focus on finding a specialist candidate. These are rock star professionals who are better than anyone in the industry at what they do. Often the specialist does one thing or focuses on…

Beyond the C-Suite: DES Searches Layers Down

  • 05/19

While the name of the company I’ve helped build over the last 30-plus years is Durakis Executive Search, my work goes far beyond the C-Suite. Many people have the misconception that my work is solely focused on that level of…

Meet Joe Gigliotti, Region President-Control States, RNDC

  • 07/16

This month's Core Connections Feature profiles Joe Gigliotti, Region President-Control States of Republic National Distributing Co. (RNDC). Working with RNDC historical companies as a result of acquisitions and mergers for the last 33 years, Joe is a wine connoisseur (and…

Meet Diane Schwarz, VP/CIO of Textron

  • 02/16

This month's Core Connections Feature highlights Diane Schwarz, VP/CIO of Textron. I was introduced to Diane by the Textron corporate HR team two few years ago to fill a search for the leader of the global US/IT HR Function- a…

BizDev Is A Digital Game

BizDev is Officially a Digital Game

  • 01/16

How does a relationship-driven business adapt to a digitally-oriented world? In other words, with digital communications taking the place of face-to-face contact, how do you keep the relational aspect of busines - ¦. relational? This is the question I've been…

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