March 12, 2010 – The Globe and Mail – Toronto, Canada
Ken Werker vividly recalls two years ago, when an accomplished vice-president of finance at a mid-sized professional-services client firm turned down a lucrative opportunity to move into the corner office.
“This person really just enjoyed finance, where he had a comfort level. He had no aspirations to be the CEO. In fact, he had an aversion to being the public face of the company, ” recalls Mr. Werker, the managing partner of Vancouver-based executive-search firm Odgers Berndtson.
Many people also don’t want to get involved in the corporate “minutiae, politics and that kind of stuff” that comes with a more senior job, says Michael Stern, president of executive coaching and leadership-development firm Michael Stern Associates in Toronto.
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