There’s no shortage of articles about how to choose an executive search firm. Many contain the same pithy and cliched advice about requesting references, making sure you understand the difference between contingent and retained agreements, and asking about guarantees of results. These are all important topics, but this post...

If you grew up in the U.S., you’re probably familiar with the “telephone game” — a favorite in grade school classrooms and kids’ birthday parties. For the uninitiated, the game involves repeating a message from one person to another in a long chain of players. With each iteration of...

We’re of the opinion that, if you’re going to blog, you might as well take advantage of the opportunity to introduce the people who make your company what it is today. In our case, that would be the folks who make Highline Outdoor Group (HOG) the executive search firm...

We’ve all heard it before, right? That culture eats strategy for breakfast. Regardless of the origin of the quote (which is commonly attributed to Mark Fields of the Ford Motor Company or management author Peter Drucker) — the idea that culture and strategy are key components of business success...

Behavior matters. Just as good parenting demands that we set clear expectations, establish guardrails, and maintain consistency to ensure that our children understand what is expected of them, attracting and retaining elite outdoor and active lifestyle industry talent requires adopting certain behaviors within a structured recruitment and hiring process....