Jeremy King is a trusted advisor to corporate boards and some of the nation’s most elite business leaders. He is also a serial connector helping move business information on opportunities at the intersection of talent, capital, entrepreneurs and business development. Jeremy is an entrepreneur himself, creating successful executive search firms and also a game-changing non-profit we will talk a bit about later called MissionLink.
Today Jeremy is the founder and President of Benchmark Executive Search. For more than 20 years, Jeremy has played a strategic role in building the leadership organizations for more than 400 growth companies, including noteworthy publicly-traded success stories. Jeremy has helped transition and guide hundreds of top federal executives and flag-officers into private sector, consulting, and board roles.
In this OODAcast we discuss:
- A succinct articulation of the difference in leadership and management
- Jeremy’s view on what makes a great leader
- How Jeremy sets about to find a leader for placement in high caliber organizations
- Ways we can all become better leaders
- Reasons to study leadership in history, including some of Jeremy’s favorite historical leaders
- Cybersecurity and leadership, including what high performing companies are asking Jeremy to help them with in this domain
- The growing need for board members with cybersecurity leadership skills
- The non-profit MissionLink organization Jeremy co-founded
- The best books on Leadership
- An exemplar of one of the great leaders
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