Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct, and Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent - Hardcover

McCool, Jospeh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891062467 ISBN 13: 9780891062462

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey, 2008

Synopsis

Enter the secret world of executive search consulting . . . . . .and discover how this influential-but largely invisible-profession is charting the course of global business.

Executive search expert Joseph Daniel McCool delivers a rich exposé of the elite world of search consulting-the single most influential form of management consulting engaged by organizations-and its powerful impact on the future of organizational performance, culture, and profits.

Deciding Who Leads offers a front-row seat from which to witness the high-stakes drama, victories, and missteps that characterize the executive search process amid what has become an intense, truly global competition for leadership talent.

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About the Author

* Author Residence: Jaffrey, New Hampshire * Contributing editor & columnist for BusinessWeek and ExecuNet; featured columnist for Search-Consult Magazine

From the Back Cover

Enter the secret world of executive search consulting...and discover how this influential--but largely invisible--profession is charting the course of global business. Executive search expert Joseph Daniel McCool delivers a rich expose of the elite world of search consulting--the single most influential form of management consulting engaged by organizations--and its powerful impact on the future of organizational performance, culture, and profits. DECIDING WHO LEADS offers a front-row seat from which to witness the high-stakes drama, victories, and missteps that characterize the executive search process amid what has become an intense, truly global competition for leadership talent.

"Executive recruiting is arguably the most important task in the world of business, and DECIDING WHO LEADS offers an insider's understanding of how the process really works." --Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management, The Wharton School

"I know of no one who writes about the world of senior executive search who knows the business better and who has earned the respect of its practitioners more than Joe McCool. This book will show you why." --Dave Opton, founder & CEO, ExecuNet

"Provocative. Practical. Pragmatic. Should be required reading for HR professionals, search consultants, and hiring executives." --Linda Clark-Santos, PhD, former Senior Vice President, Talent & Organizational Capability, Washington Mutual

"Proves how external leadership recruiters and HR can work together to attract, recruit, develop, and retain the kind of executive management talent that's essential for high-performance organizations." --Craig Newmark, found, craigslist

From the Inside Flap

In this fascinating book, Joseph Daniel McCool goes inside the hidden realm of executive search consultants (often called "headhunters") to reveal the power of this elite group to influence the world's corporations and the global war for talent. He explores the growth, success, and wide acceptance of externally led executive management recruiting as well as the nagging obstacles it faces and the missed opportunities on its record. With an investigative journalist's eye, McCool probes the recruiting practices and experiences of some of the world's leading businesses--from the Coca-Cola Company to Booz Allen Hamilton to Emirates and Disney--to illustrate search consulting's role in and impact on global business performance, organizational culture, and the definition of corporate leadership.

Authoritative and compelling, DECIDING WHO LEADS examines the process of executive search through the lens of shifting corporate priorities, decreased executive tenure, increasing public scrutiny, and the market dynamics driving the all-time-high demands on organizational leadership. As McCool lays out the new rules of engagement, he delivers an insightful road map for improving the executive recruitment and hiring process. He outlines best practices for recruiting senior-management talent and offers tactical advice to minimize the risk inherent in leadership recruiting and deliver the highest return on corporate investment in management succession.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0891062467
• ISBN 13: 9780891062462
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240