To attract executive talent in 2006, executive recruiters specializing in association leadership searches report that organizations are offering lucrative and increasingly creative compensation packages to top candidates. “Clients are optimistic and saying, ‘I really want a star,’ and more than any other time, we have organizations giving us a salary range and going beyond the top without even blinking,” says Leonard Pfeiffer, a veteran executive recruiter and principal of Leonard Pfeiffer & Company, based in Washington, D.C. “Salaries are taking off,” Pfeiffer adds. Leslie Hortum, who manages the Washington, D.C. office of Spencer Stuart, elaborates, “it’s not just… Read More