Apr 22

The Hunt for Red October: How to Find a Great Executive Director

I love movies and one of my favorite movies is The Hunt for Red October adapted from Tom Clancy’s bestselling book. You remember it – Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris and James Earl Jones. The plot is about the search for a submarine equipped with a stealth propulsion system that makes detection by sonar extremely difficult.

April Anthony
Mar 18

Who is Your Leprechaun?

I love St. Patrick’s Day! Even though I’m not Irish, it’s a time we can ALL be Irish for a day. This year, my husband and I went out with friends to celebrate over green beers and pints of Guinness.

Feb 18

The Snow Test

At Armstrong McGuire & Associates, we do a lot of search work helping to connect strong executive and development leaders with impactful organizations across our state. More often than not, we work with search committees of board and staff members.

Shannon Williams
Jul 16

Communication is Key to Successful Board/ED Relationships

I learned a lot from my late journalism professor Chuck Stone. One of his favorite quotes was “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” It actually is a line from the movie Cool Hand Luke, but Stone used it often in class to drill home his point about journalistic integrity and our responsibility to sort through all sides of a story and ultimately communicate it objectively and clearly.

Shannon Williams

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