bob damon is president of north america for executive recruiting firm korn ferry. bob, welcome to nightly business report. >> tom, thank you very much. good to be here. >> tom: so are older c.e.o.s more in demand these days? >> yeah, tom, we've seen a market increase in the demand for what we like to call seasoned c.e.o.s. in fact, there's a kind of a saying in the boardroom today that 60 is the new 50. >> tom: fair enough. and three factors have been driving this, according to your research. the complexity of the business, things are just very complicated out there. business is getting done at an accelerated speed and so much more risk. so what does a seasoned c.e.o. bring that perhaps new leadership and new ideas doesn't? >> yeah, well, the complexity of business is due to two things. one is the, you know, the rapid globalization that all companies are experiencing. and second reason is that the competition is getting much smarter. so seasoned c.e.o.s have tended to deal with those issues a lot more and therefore are capable of migrating pretty complicated seas. o