Secrets on Learning about People with Adam ZaK

CHICAGO - Feb. 4, 2014 - PRLog -- This Business901 podcast had a two-part series with Adam Zak, founder and CEO of Adam Zak Executive Search. He is an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management, consulting, financial and operations management and talent acquisition. He co-authored the book, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation detailing the role of senior management in achieving a successful transformation to organizational excellence.

Adam is considered by many to be the most influential leader today in Lean Recruiting and Lean Executive Search. I invited Adam to discuss a few of his secrets on learning about people and engaging them in meaningful dialogue about themselves. Adam has conducted over 3,000 interviews in his career and knows a thing or two about people.

You can find the podcast through the transcription link at the Business901 blog, Interviews: Preparation, Execution, Evaluation (http://business901.com/blog1/interviews-preparation-execution-evaluation/).

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Joe has participated with companies involved in retail, manufacturing, software and professional services along their quality journey. In these companies, Joe developed and implemented sales and marketing strategies. Always being a process thinker, he attached Lean to the way of implementing sales and marketing and has advanced those practices through Design Thinking and Service Design concepts.

The Business901 Blog and Podcast include many leading edge thinkers and been featured numerous times for its contributions to the Bloomberg’s Business Week Exchange. Joe has authored five books with the most recent published this year, Cap-Do.