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Deciding Who Leads
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Deciding Who Leads

How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent

Joseph Daniel McCool
Davies-Black Publishing, 2008
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Recommendation

The old-fashioned headhunter you used to call on to bring in a quick hire is completely out of date and this book will help you understand why. Author Joseph Daniel McCool is a highly regarded journalist who has written about and lectured widely on executive search. While offering great information about search consultants, he also shows you the importance of creating your own internal processes for grooming candidates. He advocates establishing “onboarding” programs to create a foundation for new hires. McCool writes clearly and invitingly. He persuasively describes the real value companies can derive from using executive search services productively. getAbstract recommends this book to anyone involved in executive searches.

Summary

Search the World for Talent

At many companies, outside executive search consultants deeply influence changes in top management. These consultants, whom companies hire to search for the best new leaders, make the first cut among candidates before they present the company with a list of people to consider for available positions.

If your company is recruiting, be sure your executive search team knows the kind of person you want and has access to the caliber of talent you need. While you may find plenty of bright, capable people, the market for the very best talent is competitive. You want to locate and hire men and women who can motivate your people and optimize your processes. Like much else in business, the competitive market for top executives has gone global, so your search should have a worldwide reach. Seek executives with international experience who know how to adapt, compete and win in the modern marketplace.

Improving Executive Search and Succession

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once said that if the company properly did its job of building executive talent and planning for succession, it would never need executive search consultants. ...

About the Author

Joseph Daniel McCool is an industry analyst who deals with global executive search consulting and executive succession. He has written three books on the subject.

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