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The Art of the Acquihire: What It Teaches Us About Leadership, Talent, and the Power of Not…

Leadership today isn’t about building empires. It’s about buying neighborhoods — then inviting the right people to move in. Enter: the…

May 27

The Art of the Acquihire: What It Teaches Us About Leadership, Talent, and the Power of Not…

May 27

The Acquihire Playbook: Buying Talent, Signaling Power, and Building the Future

There’s hiring. There’s acquiring. And then there’s the corporate lovechild of both: acquihiring. A move so bold, so strategic, and —…

May 26

The Acquihire Playbook: Buying Talent, Signaling Power, and Building the Future

May 26

Just Remember: Little Steps Build Legends

In an age obsessed with instant results — “crushed it,” “scaled it,” “10x’ed it” — we’ve somehow forgotten one of the most basic, boring…

May 8

Just Remember: Little Steps Build Legends

May 8

The Real Flex Is Scaling Down

Everyone’s obsessed with scaling up. More products, more platforms, more meetings, more headcount, more KPIs, more…everything. We’ve…

May 6

The Real Flex Is Scaling Down

May 6

The Real Flex? Scale Down

Let me guess: your calendar looks like a Jackson Pollock painting, your Slack channels are more crowded than a Times Square Apple Store…

May 5

The Real Flex? Scale Down

May 5

We Don’t Need Perfect Leaders. We Need Present Ones.

Let’s be clear: perfection is a branding exercise. It’s what you put on your LinkedIn profile, your TEDx talk, or the 5 a.m. gym selfie…

May 2

We Don’t Need Perfect Leaders. We Need Present Ones.

May 2

The Leadership Void: When the Grown-Ups Leave the Room

Let’s be blunt. In the absence of leadership — real, unvarnished leadership — companies don’t just stagnate; they rot. They become petri…

May 1

The Leadership Void: When the Grown-Ups Leave the Room

May 1

Nick Saban and The Religion of Relentless Excellence

In a culture addicted to shortcuts, where “good enough” is good enough and everyone’s looking to automate their way out of effort, one man…

May 1

Nick Saban and The Religion of Relentless Excellence

May 1

From Manager to Leader: 5 Things You Can Do Today to Stop Counting Widgets and Start Building…

We’ve become a culture obsessed with titles. VP of This. Director of That. Chief Everything Officer. But the truth is, most people with…

Apr 30

From Manager to Leader: 5 Things You Can Do Today to Stop Counting Widgets and Start Building…

Apr 30

Leadership Is About Planting Orchards, Not Squeezing Stones

We live in a culture obsessed with outcomes. The scoreboard. The valuation. The exit. Leadership has been hijacked by those who play the…

Apr 29

Leadership Is About Planting Orchards, Not Squeezing Stones

Apr 29

Brian Fink

Brian Fink

Executive Recruiter. ✈ #ATL ↔ #SF ✈ Building companies is my favorite. Opinions are my own. Responsibility is freedom. 🖖

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