Jain recruited managers from consumer-product companies like PepsiCo and Unilever and invited them to attend editorial meetings.
Ayelet Weisbrot, recruiting manager at Netformx, uses Lugo as a sort of first-round technical interview.
Sigma-Aldrich, which calls itself a leading life science and high technology company, hires about 45 percent chemists to 55 percent biologists at Ph.D. level, says Roxanne LaPlante, recruiting manager at the company's headquarters in St .Louis, Missouri.
Where the rationale for working as a Peer Worker might be different for recruiting manager and potential Peer Worker, individuals might be selected who are not best placed either to benefit personally or to deliver benefits to the service.
"All the data says there is a looming leadership deficit," says David Simms, managing partner of Bridgestar, an arm of Bridgespan that recruits managers for non-profit positions.
Mr. Price often recruits managers and advises on operational issues.
Mr. Preng said that it was difficult to recruit managers from other industries.
Like its peers, it has been furiously recruiting managers from big consumer-goods firms.
"I've never encountered more exhausted people than when I was recruiting managers and owners to talk for that study," she told me.
At Enron, for example, Kenneth Lay, the chief executive, has made a concerted effort to recruit managers and give them substantial responsibility, he said.
Some companies find it difficult to recruit managers who are prepared to work abroad.Reversing the drift to localism requires changing the terms of the political debate.
