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We believe that building excellent teams requires active management, thought, a personal commitment and determination to create a first class organization and make it succeed. It requires the ability to convey a dream and a deep sense of mission. It also requires perseverance, courage, the ability to take intelligent risk, and the leadership to make an organization succeed.

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  • Insight

    Jay Gaines provides insight into how leadership can use the economic crisis to strengthen their organizations through talent development and a "portfolio management" approach to hiring and selection.


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  • A Discussion with Jay Gaines

    Jay Gaines addresses vital questions about the psychological impact of the financial crisis on organizations and executives within the industry as well as his own unique perspective on assessment and the search process.


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  • The Leadership Paradox

    One of the executive's most critical functions is to hire or groom his or her successor. Why is this most critical job often least well done? Why is what is most important least successful?


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  • What I Look for in a Candidate

    In this excerpt taken from John Sibbald's "The Career Makers" Jay Gaines discusses what traits he finds most critical in successful candidates."


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