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 expose 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 organizational performance, culture, and profits.



Deciding Who Leads offers a front-row seat from which to witness the high-stakes drama, victories, and missteps that characterize the executive search process amid what has become an intense, truly global competition for leadership talent.