Every year major companies all across America spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to recruit talented, skilled, educated employees. A company's most important asset, it is said, is its employees. And so companies pay headhunters and recruiters large sums of money to go out and find the best and the brightest to come to work for them. A while ago the Wall Street Journal carried an article about a new phenomenon in headhunting. These headhunters are not out and about looking for the best employees they can find. Instead, these headhunters have been hired by CEOs of major corporations to find these executives best friends. The executives claim they are simply too busy to make friends of their own, so they have decided to use the one thing they do have in ample supply -- money -- and use it to obtain what they most want -- friends.
