Spencer Stuart: Assessing Context in Hiring

In this article, Spencer Stuart talks about the tendency for people to assume all leaders should be successful in multiple executive roles and consistently successful in the areas they have been successful in in the past. However, Spencer Stuart points out that the success of a leader is situational and, although one executive may excel in one area does not mean he or she can, or should be expected to, excel in another. Therefore, when hiring a new executive, it’s important to understand the qualities needed for that particular role at that particular time.

Spencer Stuart outlines the five largest context considerations that have an effect on a new leader’s success:

• Business environment
• Strategy
• Culture
• Organizational complexity
• Stakeholder needs and expectations

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