Finding a Job After 50
Administrator Finding a Job After 50:A Guide to a Successful Career Transition Finding a job after 50 can be a challenging yet rewarding endeavor. People often ask me if it is…
August 2024
Measuring Right: Understanding Goodhart’s Law
If you don’t frame your metrics right, they can distort behaviors. A bank executive once insisted that I do him a favor by getting a free credit card (even when…
Maintaining a Powerful LinkedIn Profile: A Guide for Senior Executives
Maintaining a Powerful LinkedIn Profile: A Guide for Senior Executives Your LinkedIn profile is often your first introduction to potential employers, partners and colleagues. For senior executives, maintaining a powerful…
Mindset of Leaders who are Friction Fixers
I recently interacted with a senior business leader of a large organization. During our conversation he mentioned, “Our biggest enemy is not our competitors but our own complexity as an…
Pearson Partners Named one of America’s Best Executive Search Firms by Forbes
We are thrilled to announce that Forbes has once again named Pearson Partners International one of America’s Best Executive Search Firms. This marks the fourth year of this distinction for…
The Fred Factor 20th Anniversary Edition is Out!
I’m thrilled to announce the relaunch of my New York Times bestselling book, “The Fred Factor- How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary”…
The Power of Quiet Persistence: Why Quiet Quitting Is Not the Answer
In recent discussions about workplace culture, the term “quiet quitting” has emerged, describing employees doing the bare minimum to get by without formally resigning. While this might seem like a…
Fred Isn’t Always in Customer Service
In 2004 I wrote, The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary. The 20th Anniversary Edition released June 1. 2004 I…
How to be a Boldly Inclusive Leader
In today’s world of work, being inclusive as a leader isn’t optional. In many companies I work with and consult, inclusion is used as a mere buzzword that doesn’t translate…
The U.S. and China: The Struggle for World Leadership
The U.S. and China: The Struggle for World Leadership At the Pearson Partners Spotlight Series™ breakfast held on December 12, 2023, “The U.S. and China: The Struggle for World Leadership,”…