The 21st Century Executive: Innovative Practices for Building Leadership at the Top
The important job of advising CEOs on the selection, evaluation, and management of executives often falls to HR professionals and other practitioners who have limited experience or knowledge in the arena of executive dynamics.In twelve chapters,The 21st Century Executiveoffers insight into the behavior, performance, and effectiveness of executive leadership and includes the most current corporate human resource practices for developing and sustaining organization executives. In addition, the book examines critical business and global influences on executive effectiveness and offers lessons learned, guidelines, and principles related to effective executive practices.The 21st Century Executive's first section explores executive successes, failures, and personalities and emphasizes the importance of establishing and sustaining specific business practices. In the next section, the authors show how careful selection, focused development, and financial encouragement can cultivate effective executives. They identify a number of selection factors that can lead to executive success and introduce theStrategic Enterprise,a new paradigm of organizational design that leverages executive teams. The book offers a range of approaches that can be used to develop and train executives while also contributing to organizational success.In addition, the book offers an understanding of the issues and perspectives that challenge specific groups of executives, including women and people of color, e-executives, and global executives. The final chapter presents the candid insights of a highly regarded CEO who offers thoughts on the important factors that contribute to executive success.The 21st Century Executivebrings together today's leading theorists and practitioners-all who have extensive experience working with executives-to help psychologists, human resource managers, corporate executives and other professionals address the most important issues concerning executive success.