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James Wilkson

James Wilkson

Managing Partner and Board Member at AEC Global Search Consultants, an executive search firm specializing in C-suite and senior leadership placements in the AEC industry, with over 40 years of experience in executive search and succession planning.

Jun 23, 2026

4:34
If you can't relate to people, What on earth are you doing trying to aspire to lead?
4:39
I've looked at some of the work you're doing, actually, and I think the point that you're looking for here and the point that I look for when I'm looking at people is how resistant are you? How easily frustrated are you by the alteration of the way our new generation is looking and examining at workplace production and I think many leaders now understand you can't act that way.
5:08
Ironically, though, there is a certain validity to what they're saying.
5:12
You have to be able, when you come into the workplace, people are coming in so much more knowledgeable because of how rapidly they can acquire information.
5:23
Whether that knowledge is permanently burned in their brain or not, who knows? But what we do know is is we had to work pretty hard to find out anything.
5:31
It takes about five seconds to utilize an AI tool or Google for that matter to learn something about anything.
5:38
So what's important to understand is there's a balance in leadership that really needs to be practiced.

8 MINS LATER

13:20
How do they go about doing that?

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