The Right CEO: Straight Talk about Making Tough CEO Selection Decisions

By Frederick W. Wackerle

Book Overview

Die wichtigste Führungsposition in einem Unternehmen nimmt der CEO ein, doch durch den aktuellen Mangel an fähigen Nachwuchskräften, wird die Auswahl und Nachfolgeregelung von CEOs immer schwieriger. Das Auswahlverfahren ist denkbar ungeeignet, denn häufig wird entweder die falsche Person ausgewählt, oder aber, wenn die richtige Person den Job bekommt, findet sie sich in einer Situation wieder, die eine gute Führungsarbeit behindert, wenn nicht gar unmöglich macht. "The Right CEO" ist das erste Buch auf dem Markt, das das Zusammenspiel zwischen den fünf Hauptgruppen im CEO Auswahlverfahren - Vorstand, Personalleiter, Personalberater, CEOs und CEO-Kandidaten - genau unter die Lupe nimmt. Hier finden Sie eine Fülle praktischer Beispiele und lehrreicher Anekdoten, die anschaulich demonstrieren, wie dieser meist ineffektiv ablaufende Prozess erfolgreich korrigiert werden kann.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078795585X
• ISBN13: 9780787955854
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Savy and Experienced

Fred Wackerlee has been on the forefront of senior executive recruiting for many years. I have been waiting for this book and frankly I have not been disappointed. It is the best. Bravo Fred! He captures the intersancum of what happens in CEO selection & succession. He should know - he has been there and has the street smarts to see what is really happening. Fred knows the myths of the CEO succession process and why today it needs changing - especially with the malfeasance of the 90s. This book is a must-read for executives & academics who care about the future of free enterprise, corporate leadership, talent and stockholders.

From a Winner in a Treacherous Arena

Fred Wackerle's book, The Right CEO, is the work of a big picture, comprehensive mind centered on a subject of practical action that stands as first priority in today's leadership vacuum in the top management of our corporations. Most books by consultants bore us into a stupor or show off with charts and graphs and arcane language that do little to show us a proven way when we want guidance in an area of supreme importance to us. And we want that in as clear and brief a form as possible without selling out to simplistic solutions. This book has authority stamped all over it. The author has competed in a treacherous arena and emerged victorious-all without bragging about it.No current CEOs considering their successors, no boards of directors responsible for those successions, no heads of human resources seeking to be stand up catalysts for those successions, no consultant called on to conduct the searches for those successors, and no potential candidates for CEO positions should enter this arena Wackerle has written about without his threadbare book in their hands.Many books start out strong and fizzle as they move toward their conclusion. This book starts out strong and just gets stronger, weaving early points into constantly enlarged lessons that are a rich diet for the reader hungry to learn how a CEO search can be conducted expertly. The result of such a search is to land a CEO in the job who not only is the right person at the right time at the right company, but a CEO secure-at home in her own skin. Because she's at ease with herself, other people are at ease with her.I said the book is practical-step-by-step straightforward without big words, but it's also wise and futuristic. The important thrust of Wackerle's message is that the work of a CEO search is collaborative, where the principals in the action conduct themselves in complete candor-yet matched by trust. That's a skill worth working at and mastering!Allan Cox is author of Straight Talk for Monday Morning

I agree...only more so

Wackerle's book is a good reminder of the ways in which CEOs should be recruited and retained as well as ways which should be discontinued. His "must have criteria" are wonderful guidelines to consider not only during one's recruitment but also in the evaluation process once one has taken office. He has provided many simple examples of the pitfalls to avoid and provides easy to read cases which seem simple but really incorporate many complex organizational and personal issues. For Board members and candidates alike, a book not to miss.

Common-sense guide to a board's biggest challenge

This is an exceptionally practical guide for anyone involved in selecting a CEO. It is filled with candid advice, good and bad real-life examples, and insight based on experience in the trenches. These days, when "good is no longer good enough," too many companies suffer from CEOs who are either over- or under-involved in the process of succession planning.

Practical information from an "expert" who's been there

This books explores the reasons CEO successions often fail, and prescribes tactics for how to avoid such pitfalls. Written for Boards of Directors, CEO's, CEO - aspirers, HR executives and Executive Search Consultants, all dimensions and perspectives of this dynamic are analyzed in depth. The author is very direct and pragmatic in his advice to any one of these parties involved in a CEO succession scenario. He is a retired executive recruiter who has successfully completed many CEO assignments for some of America's largest/best corporations, and knows what he's talking about.