Executive Search in the Age of AI | Rodney Morris

What does a pork chop sent back to the kitchen three times have to do with hiring your next CEO?  In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Rodney Morris, Executive Vice President at The Elliot Group and a former president of the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers, who has spent his whole career in the people business — twenty-five years on the human capital side of hospitality and twelve leading retained executive search.  Rodney sees what companies say they want in a leader and what they actually put on the table, and he names the gap: transformation expectations without the compensation or the authority to match.  He and Andy dig into how the best companies teach people to think with AI rather than operate it, what to do with the five hours a week AI gives back, and the one word that separates leaders who take care of their frontline from the ones who don’t.  Tune in to episode 265 to hear the pork chop rule, what Rodney would tell a chief people officer asked to bring in AI and hold headcount flat, and why the hardest audience for diversity of thought isn’t the one you’d expect.  AndrewTemte.com