Summary
A. Daniel Meiland heads one of the world's best-known executive search firms, Egon Zehnder. The firm, which specialises in CEO and senior executive searches, fared relatively better than its peers through the industry's cold hard winter between 2001 and 2003. Now the fifth largest executive search firm in the world, EZ is considered a pioneer of sorts in its area: it was the first to have consultants specialising in specific industries; and it was among the first to follow a one-firm model (it has offices in 39 countries around the world), with partners getting to share profits (as opposed to a commission-based model). Meiland, a former McKinsey & Co consultant, has done his share of searches (his toughest was one where, hounded by the media while he was trying to find a CEO for a well-known company, he got the entire board to check in for a flight, diverted them to a bus on the tarmac, drove them back to town where the entire floor of a hotel had been reserved, and got them to meet with candidates), and was in India recently (Egon Zehnder completed 10 years in India this year). He met with Business Today for a discussion on EZ's Indian operations and the future of the executive search industry. Excerpts:
It's six years since you were here last and 10 years since your first visit. Do you sense some changes? Can you feel some changes in the country?See the full content of this document
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'India has Bwecome, in Many Ways, the Driver'
Yes, these are obviously coloured by India playing a much bigger role globally, so you hear about it constantly. I live in the United States and the influence of Indian business and the acceptance of the 'brains' from India to run major corporations in the country has been very pronounced. Ten years ago, India was something that you talked about. It was a big market. You said, almost like a consumer goods company, 'There ...
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