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Title: Deciding Who Leads
Subtitle: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct, and Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent
Author: Joseph Daniel McCool
Narrator: Richard Lyddon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-21-17
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Genres: Business, Management
Publisher's Summary:
Deciding Who Leads offers a front-row seat from which to witness the high-stakes drama, victories, and missteps that characterise the executive search process amid what has become an intense, truly global competition for leadership talent. Enter the secret world of executive search consulting... and discover how this influential - but largely invisible - profession is charting the course of global business.
Executive search expert Joseph Daniel McCool delivers a rich exposé of the elite world of search consulting - the single most influential form of management consulting engaged by organizations - and its powerful impact on the future of organisational performance, culture, and profits.
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
Very insightful and informative - and a much needed book for today's leadership needs. Well written and very engaging.
A collection of truisms
A Search Consultant myself, the book put forward some good idea's which it completely fails to work out. It is a book written for PR purposes rather than an attempt to give a genuine informed in-depth look of how, quoting the back-flap "the profession is charting the course of global business". Therefore it resembles nothing more than an parade of truisms.
An example is how McCool calculates the cost of a bad hire; I know the cost is high but the costs as claimed by the author are not substantiated, either backed up by any research or by detailed argumentation as why they are so high: the cost of a bad executive hire ranges from 10 to 15 times the annual salary of the executive (20% direct costs - 80% indirect costs). Why? How? McCool never explains or argues how he gets to such figures - his assertion this represents the cost is enough.
The "because I say so" argumentation underlies all claims made in the book. All follow the path where idea's which do make sense are brought forward, but are not worked out nor illustrated in a manner that goes beyond the writing of what looks like a quickie performed by a PR ghost writer. Still, the majority of the chapters are not as meek as the one where he tells a story of how a headhunter can be a "hearthunter".
Sigh.
Insightful and Thought Provoking - a must read!
I found deciding who leads both insightful and thought provoking. McCool presents the in's and out's of the executive search profession in an authoritative and succinct manner.
Having been in the search profession for almost 20 years, I found that McCool paints an accurate picture of the integral role search professionals play in the shaping of the business landscape. I particularly enjoyed how he dispelled the myth that search consultants are merely "headhunters" who source any and every available candidate when in fact the search process is more strategic and thorough.
His call to search consultant to shift some of their long standing views about the value of working purposefully with a client organization's HR team in order to create strategic partnerships is something I have seen work well in my organisation.
Deciding Who Leads is a must read for search consultants, executives and human resources professionals.
The 'power' behind the power......
During the feudal days of kings and royal courts it was often said that the true power of the throne was the individual behind the throne - the kingmaker.
