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Wise Decision-Making: Stepping Up to Sustainable Performance

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 02:00:00 Z

An ambiguous, complex business environment. An inter-connected world. A society switched-on 24/7 to corporate errors. The life of a leader has never been tougher. And despite the best efforts of many, trust remains fragile. Leadership today is filled with difficult social, environmental and ethical dilemmas.

Based on the input of 363 business leaders, this global Amrop study gauges the current health of leadership decision-making, to support the journey from smart to wise.

Partner Perspectives: Digital Leadership in Wealth Management

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:00:00 Z

As a rule, management positions at larger asset managers and private banks are only reached by people who have a practical track record, or training, in digitization.

By Hannes Stettler, Partner, Amrop Switzerland, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13 September, 2018.

Bytte av administrerende direktør 1. september 2023

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:00:00 Z

Vi er glade for å kunne meddele at Jarle Trandokken fra og med 1. september tar over rollen som Managing Partner for Amrop Norge AS. Trandokken etterfølger Arne Gunnar Dokken som har ledet firmaet i 16 år.
Trandokken har vært partner og en vital del av Amrop Norge de siste 10 årene. Han har erfaring fra management consulting samt CEO, COO og CIO stillinger for selskaper i Norge, Sverige, Danmark, og Belgia.
Jarle Trandokken har en omfattende og meget imponerende bakgrunn som hodejeger og rådgiver. Han har høy tillit hos klienter han har jobbet for, ikke minst strategisk og operativ erfaring fra flere selskaper som Accenture, BearingPoint, CityMail, Yara og Porterbuddy. I Amrop Norge har han jobbet med et stort antall roller i et bredt spekter av bransjer, eksempelvis retail, industri, it, transport og supply chain.
Vi ønsker Jarle Trandokken velkommen i hans nye rolle. Hans profil og kontaktinformasjon finner du her.
Vi vil også takke Arne Gunnar for hans lederskap gjennom alle årene fra han begynte i 2007. Han har fungert som Managing Partner i hele perioden og har ledet firmaet med stødig hånd gjennom både gode og utfordrende tider. Vi er veldig glade for fortsatt å ha Arne Gunnar hos oss i tiden som kommer i rollen som senior partner.

Oslo 1. september 2023.

Crossing Over: The Role Transition From Consulting to Corporate

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:59:00 Z

As anyone who has heard the joke about the consultant and the shepherd knows, professional services firms and corporate organizations often have a love-hate relationship. Yet they share one need – superlative leadership. How do both sides benefit from mixing DNA?

More than ever, corporates seek transformative leadership. Robust strategies must be efficiently designed and executed, engaging employees with measurable results. On the Professional Services side, many Partners reach a point where they seek revitalization. Turning the spotlight onto themselves, they seriously consider ‘crossing over.'

How can consultants and hiring organizations ensure that mixing DNA exceeds the sum of its parts? While the opportunities are many, there are just as many risks.

Boardroom Talent: How Can Executive Search Do Better?

Sat, 20 May 2023 03:00:00 Z

Executive search consultants are extremely discreet; their clients and candidates need them to be. For Amrop’s Eelco van Eijck, one undesirable consequence is that clients lack a clear view of his profession. And that the sector feels insufficient incentive to apply professional and behavioral rules, or develop its quality standard.

Interview with Eelco van Eijck, Amrop, The Netherlands, By Rino Schreuder

Tyrannisk leder? Hva gjør man da?

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 12:00:00 Z

Hva gjør du dersom du har en tyrannisk leder? Et komplisert tema med mange fasetter. Partner i Amrop, Trond Mjaaland deler sine tanker om dette i DN. Vi håper innlegget kan inspirere noen til å våge enten å flytte seg fra en dårlig sjef eller ta opp kampen - og lykkes.

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Navigating Turbulence: Leadership Lessons From Travel & Tourism

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:00:00 Z

A Catalyst for Economic Recovery and Growth

This is how the World Travel and Tourism Council describes the sector in its 12-point ‘100 Million Jobs Recovery Plan’ — backed by the G20 with input from CEO’s across the globe. Travel and tourism accounts for 330 million jobs (one in ten) globally and 10,3% of global GDP. Over the past five years, it has provided one in all four of all new jobs worldwide, in all sectors and industries. 54% of the sector’s workforce are women and over 30%, youth.

The report goes on to estimate the staggering costs of Covid for the sector as global travel collapsed: losses by end 2020 of over 197 million jobs and $5,5 trillion worldwide. In June 2021 the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) reported a loss of $1,3 trillion in international tourism receipts in 2020, making it the year worst on record with international arrivals dropping by 74%.

Customer Experience 2017: Retail Executives Deliver Their Verdict

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 02:00:00 Z

Few dispute the competitive value of a great customer experience (CE). And yet, how are retail executives experiencing the organizational journey to excellence? Amrop surveyed a handpicked group of senior retail executives from 25 countries.

With the organizational journey to excellence in CE still in its early stages, retail and consumer organizations have a significant opportunity to stand out among their peers.

Cyber Security: How Boards Can Safeguard Digital Assets

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 03:00:00 Z

Cyber continues to dominate headlines - and rightly so. Not only is the topic wide-ranging, but cyber attacks are mushrooming daily, unconstrained by geographic or sectoral borders. Like so many of today’s business issues, human decision-making and behavior lie at the heart of the problem. How can companies develop digital offerings without inviting the real threat of cyber risks? Beyond the numbers, how much insight do boards really have? Within board governance, what data governance structures are needed?

These are just some of the questions that inhabit the cyber security landscape. In this article, Amrop breaks the subject into bite-size portions, collaborating with some of the industry’s most innovative companies as they trailblaze through the digital landscape. This first insight piece is co-authored with Jason du Preez, CEO of Privitar, a leader in the development and adoption of privacy engineering technology.

This article dives into the fast-evolving world of privacy engineering: the tools, technologies and processes that can be used to enforce privacy policies to deliver the principles of privacy by design, considering privacy risk throughout the entire data life cycle.

Purposeful Leadership: Leadership for the Sustainability Transition

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:00:00 Z

How can companies benefit from the sustainability transition, even without knowing how to get there? How much support do CEOs need from their board to create change? What does this mean for how investors need to facilitate Purposeful Leadership?

The sustainability transition is becoming increasingly unavoidable. Beyond international and government efforts, it will take individuals but especially businesses to step up in order to ´move the needle´ on sustainability and ESG.

Amrop's offers a new perspective and leadership concept for Companies and CEOs in these times of global change and transformation towards sustainability.

Omni-Channel Retailing Champions

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 02:00:00 Z

In Canada, a large and venerable mass-merchant faces a serious rethink in order to evolve its Customer Centricity from ‘art’ to ‘science.’ In China, the e-commerce team of a renowned retailer is confused and frustrated by constant changes in strategic direction. Even the best leaders face a host of challenges in the omni-channel race. We set the scene, report from the frontline and present the ideal profile for the elusive 'omni-channel champion.'

Energy Transition: Strategies and Insights From the C-Suite

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:00:00 Z

The scale of the energy transition is unparalleled and will affect all sectors, some dramatically. Ever more companies are seeing the opportunities: innovation and efficiency have helped put the green energy business case on the map. Yet these cannot be isolated efforts, but rather require collaboration between stakeholders.

In this special Amrop report, directors of major Dutch companies, including global market leaders, respond to the transforming energy space.

The Challenging Role of Chairs

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:00:00 Z

In many countries, the role of the Chair is evolving. In all organizations, it is vital. Today there’s no shortage of prescriptions. But behind the guidelines, the task is filled with challenges.

Amrop's Global Board Practice uncovers nine of them.

The New Shape of Work: Why the Only Way Up is No Longer Up

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:00:00 Z

Any credible career should follow an uninterrupted, upward trajectory, or so the assumption goes. Many hiring organizations, executive search firms and leadership candidates still exercise this kind of ‘up or out’ thinking.

Yet a growing number of successful executives are seriously questioning What’s Next.

The prospect of ‘more of the same’ is unappealing, and for different reasons. For millennials, the ‘career for life’ is becoming an irrelevance, and many corporates no longer offer one. Many senior leaders peak at the age of 50 and feel pressured to climb a mountain that no longer interests them – a pressure compounded by the rise of the retirement age in many markets.

Slik får du folk til å slappe av og prestere samtidig

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:00:00 Z

Lei av tåkeprat om psykologisk trygghet? Psykolog Trond Mjaaland deler tre praktiske råd om hva du kan gjøre for å bygge mer trygghet rundt deg.

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Latin American Board Ready-Women - A Win-Win for Global Boards?

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 03:00:00 Z

The best global Boards understand the importance of reflecting their organization’s diversity; their employees, consumers, shareholders and their wider communities. Diversity gives a voice to the needs of key stakeholder groups. Diversity is not only societally healthy and morally equitable, it brings business results. Gender diversity in particular is positively associated with enhanced financial value, improved CSR ratings, and ethics. This also means that, at the highest level, diversity supports wise decision-making (ethical, responsible and sustainable). And this is increasingly important for an organization to earn legitimacy.

So, there is a compelling case for raising the representation of women on your Board. And if your company has operations in Latin America, or markets services or goods to this vast region, the case for this female representation to be Latin American is more compelling still. We are confident that during the next decade, global Boards will increasingly invite Latin American women to sit at their tables.

COVID-19 An Industrial Evolution? | An Interview with Chris Connor, AAPA

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 03:00:00 Z

In Amrop’s continuing study of how COVID-19 is affecting business worldwide, we speak to a captain of American industry. Chris Connor is CEO of The American Association of Port Authorities, whose members shepherd more than $2.6 trillion of cargo annually through 130 north and central American ports. Shipping and trade has in recent months experienced an unprecedented shockwave but the prospects for a bounceback are good, says Connor, thanks to his industry’s pragmatic, problem-solving DNA.

Kunsten å gi en tøff beskjed

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:00:00 Z

Ansvarlig for lederutvikling hos Amrop, Trond Mjaaland snakker om ledelse og kommunikasjon på Lederpodden.

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Nominations Committee: Raising the Bar

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:33:00 Z

As day-to-day listed business announcements reveal unexpected high-profile departures and last-minute recruitment scrambles, how can Nominations Committees take a more robust, strategic and wide-ranging approach to succession planning?

Both regulatory and shareholder pressure on any Nominations Committee may well depend upon its company’s listed status or on its geographical location. This may influence the need for independent directorships for example, or an emphasis on gender diversity. But other pressures are dictated beyond geographical boundaries. They include the ‘growing pains’ of business linked to growth and globalization, for example. And no business today is exempt from shifts in technologies and markets increasingly identified as ‘game changing.’

Amid such a backdrop, the ‘refreshing’ of the board and senior management is increasingly seen as essential. Whatever the context, the outcome is undeniable. Businesses must constantly address the process that dictates by whom they are governed if they are not only to survive, but also to flourish. Resentment in any boardroom of outside pressure on appointments – on the need for gender diversity for example – can merely exacerbate internal issues for any listed business. For publicly listed businesses worldwide are facing rising demands from stakeholders in a key area: succession planning.

Join the exploration by Amrop and Dina Medland

Slik overbringer du en dårlig nyhet

Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:00:00 Z

Hvordan overlevere dårlige nyheter på en god måte? I DN Magasinet på lørdag forklarte partner i Amrop, Trond Mjaaland, hvordan man skal gå frem. Vi er stolt av å ha slike faglige kapasiteter på laget vårt.

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The Amrop Talent Observatory

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:00:00 Z

What motivates leaders to join one kind of organization, and avoid another? What are their deeper criteria for career decisions? What sources are they using to ‘audit’ potential employers, and what are their attitudes to the use of AI in the hiring process? What factors are fueling executive departures and how have recent global events affected their confidence in making a career move?

To find out, we personally approached senior executives from across the world who had recently been shortlisted for a senior position with a hiring organization. As such, they were in a reflective and ‘organization-assessing’ state of mind. The study followed a central hypothesis: that their needs are profoundly changing.

Make or Break - Why Transition Coaching is Critical for Incoming Executives

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 02:00:00 Z

The adaptation of a senior executive to a new job is a critical period. Expectations are being born, relationships established and trust must be swiftly built in circumstances that are unfamiliar and stressful, where tension is high and there is a perceived need for immediate results.

Whether you are a senior executive facing your first months in a critical role, or a key internal stakeholder in an incoming leader's transition process, Amrop invites you to explore the emotional landscape facing every new entrant, and discover some keys to its successful navigation.

20 Tips til deg mellom jobber

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 12:00:00 Z

Sluttpakke. Fallskjerm. Avtale om fratredelse. Sluttkompensasjon ved frivillig avslutning av arbeidsforhold. Ikke så kjært barn har mange navn. De fleste opplever minst en gang i karrieren å slutte i jobben uten at det var planlagt. Frivillig eller ikke fullt så frivillig. Men ofte med en brukbar monetær kompensasjon på kjøpet. Denne artikkelen har norske ledere som nylig har tatt/fått en sluttpakke som målgruppe. Den oppsummerer viktige erfaringer fra en rekke ledere som har vært gjennom prosessen som følger etter en slik fratredelse. Og det forutsettes at du ønsker å fortsette karrieren som ansatt i en virksomhet. Mye av det som er skrevet om temaet er generelt, ganske omfattende og ikke nødvendigvis spesifikt for norske forhold eller en moderne digital hverdag. Her har du noen korte og spesifikke punkter som forhåpentligvis kan være til hjelp på veien til neste stopp i arbeidslivet.

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9 Keys For Candidates Working With Executive Search Consultants

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 12:00:00 Z

In his pursuit of a new role, Patrick had dealt with five executive search firms and his experience had been less than positive. He had secured a meeting with two, and the other three had failed to respond to his emails or return his calls. He had been proactive and dynamic in staying in touch, he thought. Yet after three months’ chasing, nothing had transpired. Radio silence.

Disconnected Data: The Case for Wisdom in Leadership Assessment

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:00:00 Z

Leadership Assessment sits at the very heart of the talent management landscape. It is extensively (and enthusiastically) deployed by executive search firms and organizations. Yet it is in this domain that shortfalls in leadership talent strategy are most starkly reflected.

The need for ‘wise’ leadership in business has never been stronger. Today a more ethical, responsible and sustainable approach is in universal demand; not only by shareholders (for example, when it comes to meeting ESG criteria or SDGs), but by the wider stakeholder community. This ‘holistic’ approach is rapidly earning its place in the way leaders are expected to think, behave and make decisions.

In this article we’ll argue that wise leadership needs better integration in the way in which these key executives are assessed - a high-stakes intervention in recruiting, development and career progression.