Described by BusinessWeek as "the authority on headhunters" and recognized widely as the author of "one of the best business books of 2008," Joseph Daniel McCool is the founder of The McCool Group. He consults globally on corporate executive recruitment, board succession and institutional leadership transition best practices.

Executive recruiting is arguably the most important task in the world of business.

HOW AND WHAT YOU DECIDE about recruiting an executive for a critical senior-management role or a seat on your board…

• determines whether your organization will achieve its desired results.

• multiplies or limits your options for smooth and effective succession.

• requires expert counsel because the stakes are simply too high to go it alone.


Leaders who know choose The McCool Group.

We are engaged by Chief Executive Officers, Chief Human Resource Officers, Lead Directors, Board Nominating Chairs, Corporate Secretaries, Talent Acquisition Leaders and other business and institutional principals to advise them and their organizations on:

• Executive Search Firm/Consultant Selection, Engagement & Impact Assessment

• Board Nominating Next Practices

• Search Committee Training & Consulting

To learn more about The McCool Group please contact:

Joseph Daniel McCool
603 673 4656 Direct
Joe@TheMcCOOLGroup.com

Joe is the author of Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent (Davies-Black Publishing), recognized as "one of the 30 best business books of 2008" by Soundview Executive Book Summaries and "one of the year's best" by Business Book Review and getAbstract. Also nominated for the 800-CEO-Read Book Award, chosen as a finalist for the ForeWord Book Award, and just translated in Brazilian Portuguese, Deciding Who Leads has made headlines in The Conference Board Review, Human Resource Executive Magazine, Talent Management Magazine, Workforce Management Magazine, Shanghai Daily, The Boston Sunday Globe, Training + Development Magazine and other media worldwide.

He writes an online column for BusinessWeek and works as senior contributing editor with ExecuNet, a leading business networking organization founded in 1988. Previously, Joe worked for eight years as editor of Executive Recruiter News and also as vice president with its publisher, Kennedy Information, Inc., a New Hampshire-based subsidiary of the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA).

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