It's obvious how hard it must be to function when so many eyes are on you. Microsoft's quest to fill retiring CEO Steve Ballmer's shoes has been postponed, as the company recently announced. Though a CEO search may always involve an amount of uncertainty, the use of an executive recruitment firm might make this a somewhat less tricky proposition, or at least allow you to work a little faster.
This ability could be valuable for a company in Microsoft's situation, as it seems that even with the time it has already dedicated to this very important endeavor, it still has more than 20 candidates to sift through, at least according to a recent blog post from one of the company's board members, John Thompson.
Though he was announcing a delay, the post from Thompson mainly focuses on why this is necessary and how it doesn't undermine the seriousness of what they hope to accomplish.
"As you would expect, as this group has narrowed, we've done deeper research and investigation, including with the full Board," Thompson says. "We're moving ahead well, and I expect we'll complete our work in the early part of 2014."
But while this might not shake the faith of those who believe the company will continue its success, with new videogame console XBox One still pulling its weight in the so-called "console wars," it still demonstrates how a global executive search firm might be a tool to help free up executive resources at a crucial time, especially at the end of a business year.
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