Deciding Who Leads

Noted as a “recruiting expert” by Fast Company, McCool takes his reader inside the world of executive recruiters: the most influential and elite group of management consultants operating in business today. The author reveals how senior management recruiters influence everything from executive compensation, workplace diversity, business management, profits, culture and the definition of leadership itself.

• Why it is more important than ever to scour the globe for senior management talent.
• How executive search consultants shape the culture and performance trajectory of client organizations.
• What The Walt Disney Co.'s dispute over CEO hiring revealed about the ways large companies address management succession.
• How to calculate the direct and indirect costs of a bad executive hire.
• Why executive "onboarding" is the single most important way to avoid executive-level rejection.
• The essential questions to ask about qualifications, processes, and procedure before engaging a search consultant.