While the results of their work have ignited simmering public debates and Congressional testimony about executive pay, leadership diversity, and CEO turnover ñ the influence of executive recruiters on corporate performance, culture, and profits has remained largely overlooked ñ until now.
In a new book released today, Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct, & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent (April 2008, Davies-Black Publishing), executive search industry analyst Joseph Daniel McCool sheds new light on the most influential group of management consultants operating in business today.
In the pages of his book, already recognized as ìone of the 30 best business books of 2008î by Soundview Executive Book Summaries, McCool, a contributing editor to ExecuNet and BusinessWeek, reveals how executive recruiters orchestrate the confidential process that ultimately leads to hiring senior executives who will mold the strategy that drives corporate performance and shareholder value.
ìDespite the growing body of knowledge on leadership and its role in driving organizational change and corporate profits, the business of executive search consulting remains widely misunderstood,î McCool says. ìWith a new war for executive talent challenging companies around the world as Baby Boomers begin to retire in large numbers, understanding the role of executive search consultants and their always influential but sometimes dysfunctional relationships with client hiring organizations is more important than ever before.î
Key issues and topics explored in Deciding Who Leads include:
- The Global War for Executive Talent;
- The New Leadership Mandate;
- The True Cost of a Bad Executive Hire;
- The Intersection of Executive Search and Executive Onboarding; and
- Best Practices for Senior Management Recruiting.
ìThe insights shared by Joe McCool in Deciding Who Leads could not have arrived at a better time,î says Dave Opton, CEO and Founder of ExecuNet, the career and business membership network for C-suite executives. ìGaining a competitive advantage in a global economy starts with recruiting great leaders, and few have more influence in this process than executive recruiters.î
To read an excerpt from Deciding Who Leads on the emergence of a truly global competition for executive management talent, visit www.DecidingWhoLeads.com.
About The Author
Joseph Daniel McCool is a writer, speaker and advisor on executive recruiting and corporate management succession best practices and a contributing editor to BusinessWeek and ExecuNet. He has been interviewed on CNBC and CNN Radio and his perspectives on executive recruitment, corporate management succession and workforce best practices have been cited in media worldwide, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economist, and Investorís Business Daily. The former Editor of Executive Recruiter News, McCool was an award-winning newspaper and radio correspondent whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The Washington Times and Boston Herald and on New Hampshire Public Radio.
Deciding who leads reveals how executive recruiters are changing the course of global business
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