Companies engage management consultants for many reasons, for example, to examine organizational structures while considering adjustments so as to enhance efficiency or effectiveness, to bring in specialist skills not available in the organization itself, and to execute limited-term specific projects....

Health Care is certainly one of the fastest-growing major markets worldwide, despite the gradual abatement of the Covid-19 threat. In 2020, “[s]harp increases in government spending on health at all country income levels underpinned the rise in health spending to a new high of US $9 trillion (approximately...

Before we look at this industry in detail let us first rise to the 30,000-foot altitude and look at the landscape for a moment. Many sources offer such perspectives but one interesting source took the abstraction to an unusual level. They focused mainly on emotional motivation. Paraphrasing this ...

The Barrett Group principally covers the three regional markets noted below with some exceptions. But there is truly a world of executive opportunity out there if you know where to look. More than 450,000 executive positions were filled in the past year in these markets. To be sure, the rates of growth...

We bundle Leisure, Tourism, Travel, Hospitality, and Food into one macro-category. There is significant overlap and transfer of executives between these related activities. Clearly, these industries suffered during the Covid-19 lockdowns. These industries have taken some time to recover, but that...

Introduction Advertising and marketing used to be so simple. Broadcast, print, point of sale… the options were limited and there were relatively few outlets. It seemed at least as if access to any given audience was highly controlled by a small cadre of media outlets. However, the proliferation of...

Introduction: The Market for Executives At the Barrett Group we have seen 32 clients receive offers or land senior executive positions in the last four weeks—all of them at compensation levels much higher than those quoted below by Indeed (an on-line jobs market). So we believe that the market for...

Introduction Frankly, it may be impossible to separate several related industries fairly. This is why we bundle Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Accounting, Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Capital Markets under the general umbrella of Financial Services. As one source puts it: “Over...

Introduction to Industry Update: Manufacturing At its peak in 1979, manufacturing accounted for 22% of non-farm employment in the US. It now totals about 9%, equating to approximately 11% of GDP. [See source.] Recovery from the pandemic and the resultant surge in consumption helped bring renewed life...

Introduction – Human Resources In researching this Industry Update, we encountered numerous assertions that now is the time for Human Resource executives and professionals to really shine. One source put it like this: “I’ve worked in the HR industry now for a quarter of a century, and by my...