21st Century Executive

Rob Silzer is the managing director of HR Assessment and Development, Inc. For more than twenty-five years Silzer has consulted with managers and executives from more than one hundred organizations. He has specialized in executive and management leadership, team selection and development, and strategically driven HR systems. Silzer is the coeditor with Richard Jeanneret of Individual Psychological Assessment: Predicting Behavior in Organizational Settings.

• Foreword (Eduardo Salas). Preface. The Authors. Part One: Defining Executive Effectiveness. 1 Deciphering Executive Failures (Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld). 2 What the Best Business Leaders Do Best (Anthony J. Rucci). 3 Understanding the Personality of the Executive (Leslie Pratch,Harry Levinson). Part Two: Managing Executive Resources. 4 Selecting Leaders at the Top: Exploring theComplexity ofExecutive Fit (Rob Silzer). 5 Leveraging Executive Teams: What s New (andWhat s Not) in theStrategic Enterprise (Janet L. Spencer, J. Carlos Rivero, David A.Nadler). 6 Coaching Executives: Individual LeaderDevelopment (George P.Hollenbeck). 7 Developing Executives (Val H. Markos). 8 Rewarding Executives (Marianna Makri, Luis Gomez-Mejia). Part Three: Understanding Executive Perspectives. 9 Finding the Key to the Executive Suite: Challengesfor Women andPeople of Color (Karen S. Lyness). 10 E-Executives: Leadership Priorities for theNew Economy (D.Douglas McKenna, Robert B. McKenna). 11 Growing Global Executives (John R. Fulkerson). 12 Getting an Executive View: An Interview witha Chief ExecutiveOfficer (Lawrence A. Bossidy, Marcia J. Avedon). Name Index. Subject Index.