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Choosing Leaders: A Team Approach for Executive Selection

Valerie I. Sessa and Jodi K. Taylor

Most people agree that leadership, especially on the part of the CEO and the executive team, is closely related to organizational performance. With the right leaders at the top, the organization will flourish; with the wrong ones, it will fail, perhaps catastrophically. Thus, choosing the right senior leaders—executive selection—is itself a crucial leadership activity.

CCL has been studying selection in the executive ranks (CEO and one and two levels down) for years. As part of the team conducting this research, we have learned that selection is best ...

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