Best of Blog features the latest, greatest posts of the Executive Search Blog written by The Good Search CEO Krista Bradford. Our Best of Blog posts are here to help make executive recruiting smarter, easier, and less stressful for you. Without a doubt, executive searches are incredibly important. A senior executive hire can make or break a company. But it doesn’t have to break you.
A former Emmy-Award-winning investigative reporter and television journalist, Headhunter-in-Chief Ms. Bradford digs deep to share leadership talent acquisition secrets and best practices. She reports on the latest recruiting trends, provides advice to top executives, shares her favorite software tools, and talks about the meaning of work (and life.)
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For most of its short history, the Chief AI Officer role was not a C-suite role at all. It was nested inside engineering, reporting to the CTO or CIO, focused on implementation rather than strategy.…
When physicians leave states where the law prevents them from practicing medicine to the standard of care, they don’t leave alone. They bring families, colleagues, and the institutional gravity of entire research ecosystems. Connecticut is…
Explore how Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Apple CEO Tim Cook have evolved Steve Jobs’ uncompromising recruitment philosophy into collaborative “star systems.” We examine the shift in executive search toward behavioral capability and resilience, ensuring…
In the modern economy, the delta between functional and transformational leadership is the primary driver of institutional alpha. This strategic briefing outlines the diagnostic framework for de-risking executive acquisitions, identifying the critical triggers—from market complexity…
Chief Executive Officers regularly grapple with how to recruit the right executive. I have recruited top executives and technologists for the past decade and a half. Over the same period, I have also made hires…
In the high-stakes world of executive leadership, “Client Blockage” is a systemic inefficiency that compromises the ROI of large-scale search. This analytical briefing deconstructs how structural constraints at global giants create talent blind spots, and…
The race to appoint a ‘symbolic’ AI leader has ended; the era of operational orchestration has begun. Discover why the 2026 mandate for the Chief AI Officer has shifted from experimental pilots to governing autonomous…
Artificial Intelligence has reached an inflection point where it is no longer a differentiator in executive search; it is the baseline. Discover why information ubiquity is forcing a shift toward investigative research to maintain a…
In 2026, change is existential: everywhere, all the time, and all at once. Discover why the era of ‘stably unstable’ leadership—the permacrisis—requires a fundamental shift in executive search and how to identify leaders who can…
Discover why building an internal shortlist is the only way to ensure data integrity. We provide a clinical framework for vetting executive search firms based on evidence, not marketing.
Artificial Intelligence could become your next CEO. While that once felt like a dystopian rabbit hole, in 2026, it is becoming a documented governance standard. As the Founder of The Good Search, I have recruited…
Headhunters regularly claim they recruit rock stars, but most executive recruiters have never known a rock star in the literal sense. Consequently, they haven’t a clue what it takes to perform at that level —…
A failed executive search represents a significant disruption to enterprise momentum. While industry data consistently indicates a 40% non-completion rate for retained mandates, these failures are rarely the result of a talent shortage. Instead, they…
Neurodiversity is not just an inclusion issue. In technology leadership, it can be a source of extraordinary market cap, compounding returns, and strategic advantage.
The 2026 recruiting landscape is defined by the “Agentic Paradox.” While 84% of talent acquisition leaders plan to integrate AI into their workflows by next year, the “Depersonalization” of executive search has already reached a…
In so many ways, Steve Jobs’ iconic persona seems a product of the adoption experience. Adoption made Steve Jobs who he was. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin conveys that influence in this scene featuring Michael Fassbender as Steve…
