Searching for a Corporate Savior The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

Name: Searching for a Corporate Savior The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
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ISBN: 9780691120393

ISBN-10: 0691120390

ISBN-13: 9780691120393

Edition: 2002

Authors: Rakesh Khurana

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Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This is the first book to take us into the often secretive world of the CEO selection process. Rakesh Khurana's findings are surprising and disturbing. In recent years, he shows, corporations have increasingly sought CEOs who are above all else charismatic, whose fame and force of personality impress analysts and the business media, but whose experience and abilities are not necessarily…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/26/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



"Everyone Knew He Was Brillant": The Wooing of Jamie Dimon



A Different Kind of Market



The Rise of the Charismatic CEO



Board Games: The Role of Directors in CEO Search



The Go-Betweens: The Role of the Executive Search Firm



Crowning Napoleon: The Making of the Charismatic Candidate



Open Positions, Closed Shops: Learning from the External CEO Succession Process


Appendix


Notes


References


Index