Executive recruiting is arguably the most important task in the world of business, and 'Deciding Who Leads' offers an insider's understanding of how the process really works.

Peter Cappelli
George W. Taylor Professor of Management
The Wharton School

enior executives knit the fabric of employer culture, mold strategy that drives shareholder value, and set the course that dictates the customer experience. So who, exactly, determines who gets to the table of leadership and who doesn't?

In this rich exposé that unveils the truth about the power, influence, and dysfunction that rules the stealth business of leadership recruiting, author Joseph Daniel McCool—whom BusinessWeek described as "the authority on headhunters"—pulls back the curtain to reveal how senior management recruiters influence everything from compensation, workplace diversity, high-profile CEO succession, and business management to the very definition of leadership itself.
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