If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs.

About a year and a half ago, Lantern Partners integrated an innovative step into our senior executive recruitment process: Onboarding. It works like this: After a final decision has been made...

We all make quick judgements based off impressions from people’s online personae, particularly with those who we don’t know or are only somewhat familiar. Your digital life can be used...

In the New York Times article Why Are Harvard Graduates in the Mailroom, Adam Davidson explores the “gambles” entry-level employees take in large companies for the potential reward of a...

Sustainability: It’s a word that’s frequently thrown around in the business world and, because of rampant greenwashing, is often met with scoffs of cynicism and plenty of eye rolls. When companies misleadingly...

Does shared power work? Does it create accountability and diversity of thought, or does it create a potential for power struggles and egocentric infighting? With the announcement that the Co-CEOs of...

It’s critical that senior executives are fully behind the mission, vision, message, and identity of their company. Along with that, getting all other employees to align with and commit to...

Famed psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted his “small-world experiments” back in the mid-20th century. Milgram asked a random selection of people in Omaha and Wichita to get a letter to a person...

One of the marks of a successful business is when company leaders in the C-suite, along with all other employees, are making great strides in high-volume productivity. It sounds ideal: Mountains...

High expectations rest on the shoulders of newly hired executives joining the C-suite of a company. Execs need to possess brilliance, come up with groundbreaking ideas, maintain a solid commitment to...

Businesses seeking progress, growth, and evolution want only the brightest, most promising, and established winners to take the lead. Thus, they put people in charge who have extensive education and experience and seem...