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

Joseph Daniel McCool is a contributing editor and columnist to BusinessWeek, a senior contributing editor to ExecuNet, and a featured columnist for Search-Consult magazine. He has been noted by Fast Company as a "recruiting expert" with "headhunting guru wisdom." Widely quoted on the global business of executive search consulting, he has appeared on CNBC and CNN Radio and has been featured in worldwide media such as the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. Former editor in chief of Executive Recruiter News (ERN), he is an award-winning journalist and correspondent whose work has appeared in the Miami Herald, the New York Times, and the Boston Herald.

Noted by Fast Company magazine as a recruiting expert with headhunting guru wisdom, McCool takes readers inside the secret world of executive recruiters: the most influential and elite group of management consultants operating in business today. The first book in 22+ years to take an investigative journalist's eye to the growing influence executive recruiters have on the world's corporations, Deciding Who Leads reveals how and why executive recruiters are truly at the center of the simmering public scrutiny on corporate scandals, outrageous executive hiring and golden parachute deals, globalization, outsourcing, and overall business performance.

Foreword John A. Byrne Byrne, John A.

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Global War for Executive Talent 1

Chapter 2 Reengineering Executive Search and Management Succession 21

Chapter 3 Disney's Executive Decision 41

Chapter 4 The Headhunters' Identity Crisis 59

Chapter 5 The New Leadership Mandate 79

Chapter 6 The True Cost of a Bad Executive Hire 97

Chapter 7 The Intersection of Executive Search and Executive Onboarding 109

Chapter 8 Partners in Leadership Recruiting 127

Chapter 9 Executive Search as the Key to Leadership Diversity 147

Chapter 10 How to Engage Executive Search Consultants 159

Chapter 11 Best Practices for Senior Management Recruiting 171

Notes 201

Index 209