Will you select the right one?
In every conversation with senior leadership I’ve had during the past two weeks this one truth stands out loud and clear: Acquiring, orienting and deploying the right new talent is an expensive business to get right, and even more expensive to get wrong. Just think of all that muda!
Recruiting Strategic Leadership for the Lean+Green Revolution, from Adam Zak
With each passing day, recruiting and retaining the right executive talent to lead Lean & Six Sigma efforts and Green & Sustainability initiatives poses a greater challenge…
Today’s most experienced Lean leaders hail from those industrial sectors which were pioneers in continuous improvement. As still greater numbers of companies venture into lean and Six Sigma, the demand for this expertise is beginning to outweigh overall supply. So where and how do we seek out the best of these individuals?
On the other hand, the challenge in recruiting the right Green leaders is different, but no less daunting. Can we even agree about what makes an executive Green? How do we deal with imprecise definitions and varying skill sets? How can we focus on targets which are moving due to the evolving nature of executive backgrounds?
In both situations you’re hiring change agents, quite often the executives who will outline a new vision for your company, and then inspire your team to make that vision a reality. So what does it take to recruit the right Lean & Green executives for your organization?
In this special report from Adam Zak, a top executive recruiter of Lean, Operational Excellence and Sustainability leaders, you’ll quickly learn:
To receive your complimentary copy of this timely special report, please email Adam Zak with: your name, title, company company phone number and business email address zak@LeanRecruiter.com
If you happen to be an executive or manager with strong Lean or Lean Sigma expertise (in other words, someone who can demonstrate the ability to make Operational Excellence happen in Corporate America), dust off that resume and get ready to take advantage of the developing talent war for professionals just like you. Oh, and if you’ve also had a chance to help incorporate a Green focus into the Lean equation, then we should probably talk right away…
And the message for all you hiring executives - CEOs, Presidents, and Vice Presidents of Human Resources - start planning now how you’ll go about filling your talent pipeline with the people who can bring these strategic and tactical principles, processes and techniques into your organization. Because that’s what your competitors are doing right about now.
Way back in May, 2009 this ominous news from BusinessWeek: ”In the midst of the worst recession in a generation or more, with 13 million people unemployed, there are approximately 3 million jobs that employers are actively recruiting for but so far have been unable to fill. That’s more job openings than the entire population of Mississippi.” No statistics, unfortunately, on how many of these unfilled positions were at the executive or managerial level.
My own unscientific research project over the weekend, focusing on Lean Leadership vacancies, turned up these well-known corporate names in search of Manager, Director or Vice President level candidates: Genzyme; Medtronic; Tyco Electronics; Florida Power & Light (FPL Group); Siemens Energy; Pentair Corp; Textron Systems; B/E Aerospace; Johnson & Johnson; Cooper Industries; Accenture; Merck; Ecolab; Baxter.
And of course Marvin Windows & Doors, for whom we seek a new Vice President of Manufacturing.
Whether as a potential new job-seeker or prospective hiring executive, will you be ready for this rapidly-approaching and dramatic shift in the American executive recruiting picture ?
This is Adam Zak, and that’s how I see it…
