Jay Rosenzweig and Robert Waite, two international head hunters, have analyzed the two presidential candidates in the same way executive recruiters do when searching for top talent for client companies.
Typically, the client in a chief executive search is the board of directors, according to Rosenzweig and Waite. The presidential race the board of directors is us, the voters.
“Through the head-hunter’s prism, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney bring to the table very different pros and cons. Business and politics are different in many, many respects. However, a chief executive and a President share certain attributes to be successful.
Those attributes include the ability to lead others and the intestinal fortitude needed to make tough, sometimes unpopular, decisions.”
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