Must Read for CEOs, Search Partners, Executives, Top HR

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	• Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct, and Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership ... Joseph Daniel McCool Davies-Black Publishing, 2008 - 232 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Interesting book, with insightful content

John Byrne wrote The Headhunters in the 1980's. It was, and I think still is, the best overview of the beginning and rise of the executive search consulting industry. Byrne was a bit hyperbolic for my taste, but still his book examined the personalities and firms well. McCool's book is not an updated history of the search industry and how it has evolved over the intervening 20 years. But that actually is the point.

McCool's book illustrates how 20+ years after that book the search industry operates pretty much the same way it did back then, and well before. McCool focuses on the influence search firms/consultants have in the business world. But I believe the true importance of this book lies in McCool's analysis of how search needs to/should evolve. For search consultants(disclaimer: I am one) who care about their industry I think this is a book worth reading and hopefully will be a call for the profession and its members to innovate an industry that has changed very little in the past 60+ years (are you listening AESC?). For those who revel in calling themselves, or being called, Headhunters this book hopefully will move you to rethink accepting that degrading title for your profession.

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Must Read for CEOs, Search Partners, Executives, Top HR

Joseph Daniel McCool's Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct and Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent, should be "must reading" for CEOs, senior executives, executive search consultants, Human Resource heads and others who play a role in recruiting and building the capability of top executives. In his provocative and insightful book, Joe shows what can go wrong and what must go right in the executive search process.

Executive search has been plagued by the status quo for decades and needs an overhaul to meet the rapidly changing needs created by the global war for talent. Joe shows us a framework, a road map, of how executives, client companies and executive search professionals can work together and transform this esoteric headhunting practice into to a rich, value-adding, competitive advantage for building and sustaining every company's most important asset: the capability and motivation of their senior executives and top teams.

I'm busy distributing copies to my clients. I highly recommend Deciding Who Leads.
Chuck Bolton, author of Leadership Wipeout: The Story of an Executive's Crash and Rescue

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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.

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