It’s the catch-22 for up-and-coming association leaders – how to get CEO experience if you’ve never been the CEO. In the final sprint to land a national CEO position, senior staffers generally lose the race to CEOs due to a lack of “experience,” said Paul Belford, principal at JDG Associates in Rockville, Md. And if you look at the numbers, statistically search committees are increasingly hiring more former CEOs for their open CEO job. Of the new CEOs hired by national groups in 2007, 37 percent came directly from another CEO position – up from 24 percent five years ago, according to data compiled by CEO Update. So how do you get over the hurdle, get noticed and land a… Read More