I spent many formative years at FedEx — an amazingly productive period in which I and many other future executives received an in-depth education in the company's core strengths, including process management and customer satisfaction. We were always at or near the top of the industry in these qualities. Little did I realize at the time that someday a homebuilder would be hiring me for precisely that reason. The homebuilding industry was falling flat in both areas, and these guys decided they wanted to do better. So they looked outside their own industry to a veteran of a company known for getting those things right.

That's the power of executive outsourcing. Hiring a company like LGE Execs to bring in executives from outside your normal hiring pool allows you to tap resources in the precise areas your industry may tend to serve poorly. And the flexible nature of the outsource relationship means that you're not necessarily stuck with a permanent hire for a temporary problem. You can bring on the perfect consultant for your immediate needs, manage a project to its resolution and then maintain that newly discovered or repaired process yourselves. In an era driven by economic uncertainty, this kind of practicality just makes sense.

There are other benefits too. When you welcome an LGE Execs consultant to your company, you're getting an objective point of view. We can apply fresh eyes to an old problem and point out things your core team may never have thought about. And since we're not "in" the company, we can employ that objectivity without being influenced by any of the interoffice politics or infighting that can occur within a corporate culture. We can simply focus on suggesting and implementing the changes that need to be made.

Can executive outsourcing help your company build a better future?