Pipes are quite ordinary, typically unattractive and pretty much invisible-- until there’s a problem. In contrast, fountains are quite lovely, typically beautiful and admired. If given the choice, which would you rather be--the pipe or the fountain? The obvious choice for most would be the fountain. The conundrum is, there…
Filling a key leadership role in your organization can unintentionally stir up fear in your hiring committee. There are a lot of unknowns and you can easily take yourself down a never-ending road of ‘what-ifs’. The hiring committee needs to consider numerous factors, but a prudent team won’t allow themselves…
Fear is your friend when it’s protecting you from harm. Fear is your foe when it’s keeping you from great opportunities. It takes wisdom to recognize the difference, especially during the hiring process. We witness the struggle regularly in the realm of executive search. We all fall prey to the…
Centennial received the extraordinary honor of earning a 4.41 out of 5 on a recent Culture Audit – a record breaking score for the organization that performed our culture audit. Corporate Culture Directly Impacts Your Ability to Attract and Retain Your Best People Centennial’s leadership, Mike Sipple Sr. and Mike…
Derby Fabricating Solutions, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky has selected Jason Kellams as its new President and Chief Operating Officer. In addition to Louisville, Derby Fabricating has three additional plants in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Derby Fabricating is part of Private Equity Group Capital Partners’ portfolio of businesses. After evaluating several…
Whether or not to hire a retained executive search firm is a decision companies ought to consider carefully. Although it may seem like an odd idea if you already have an internal corporate recruiter, it becomes a highly effective strategy. As a retained executive search firm, Centennial strategically partners with…
At Centennial, we strive to provide you with resources that are helpful and relevant to executives today. With that in mind, we want to take a look at a topic that many executives find daunting and outright confusing: resume writing. It's a topic we find worth revisiting regularly. Your resume…
This past Friday, more than 100,000 people world-wide replaced a “normal” Friday with an “extraordinary” Friday. They attended Leadercast: Powered by Purpose. Leadercast is the world’s largest leadership summit, simulcast out of Atlanta. Centennial and several other sponsors hosted a local site in Erlanger, KY. There, more than 300 leaders…
Entice the world with the greatness of you. That may sound a bit extreme and self-aggrandizing, but hear me out, there’s a lot of business sense in that statement. It's all about developing and promoting your organizational brand. Your organization is more than a product or service. Behind the ‘what’,…
