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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas Board |
| ISBN: | 9781409436485 1409436489 9781409436492 1409436497 |
| OCLC Number: | 769141596 |
| Description: | xvii, 253 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- From bad to good to stuck -- From bad -- ... to good -- ... to stuck -- What's different about senior roles? -- Complexity, humility and responsibility -- Power and politics -- A deeper crisis -- Re-thinking fundamentals -- Skill and intuition -- Games, skill and belonging -- Re-thinking science and leader selection -- So what -- The candidate's perspective -- The selector's and society's perspective -- Notes -- Field notes for candidates -- Field notes for selectors -- Academic notes -- Works cited. |
| Responsibility: | Douglas Board. |
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Publisher Synopsis
'If you think all the right people get appointed to the top jobs, you might want to skip this book. Otherwise read it. It asks how the advances in recruitment practice of the last 50 years can be extended upwards to the recruitment of top leaders. Thought out without being dried out, practical without being puerile, it is full of good stories and deep thoughts, a good read, and at the same time it takes us forward on one of the most important questions for the twenty-first century.' David Sims, Emeritus Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Cass Business School'Douglas Board bridges from practical experience to modern philosophy and social thought to address one of the major (unrecognized) issues of society today - how do we best choose the leaders of our major institutions? He builds a rich theory and practice around expertise and intuition, of both the leader and the selector.'David Newkirk, CEO of Executive Education, Darden School of Business and formerly senior vice president at Booz & Co'This book provides a rare and at times uncomfortable insight into the world of executive selection. Thought provoking and challenging in equal measure - it should be essential reading for all practitioners and researchers working in personnel selection.'Jo Silvester PhD CPsychol, Professor of Organisational Psychology, City University London, UK'Douglas Board takes us far beyond the lab. Travelling from the playground to the boardroom, he blends first-hand executive search experience with contemporary social science thinking to highlight where executive selection decision-making is stuck and how it could be unstuck. Bravo!'Ralph A Mortensen PhD ABPP, Chief Psychologist HR/OD, IPAT Inc Read more...