There was however one underlying disappointment : whilst not detracting from any of the underlying principles, the authors seem to have become engrossed in working for Large Corporations, when this is a book about Individuals careers. I'd have liked to have seen more examples about small/middle-sized Companies.

The examples & scenarios quoted all refer to Large US Corporations like AOL TimeWarner, AT&T, EDS, GE, GM, IBM, McKinsey, Microsoft, Xerox. There's one fleeting reference (page 187) when non-US firms like Nokia, Shell & Toyota get a 1-sentence 'also' mention.

The authors' Employer, SpencerStuart, gets plenty of promotion on the front cover as well as throughout the contents, and is described therein as "the worlds most influential executive search firm". The authors say that they interviewed "thousands" of Executives. Therefore I was surprised and disappointed that they hadn't managed to cite a single example of a European or Asian Executive or Company? I can't believe that "success" is limited to American Executives or Companies? It even made me wonder how good the authors would be in performing an Executive Search for a European or Asian Company? Yet SpencerStuart has more Offices in Europe that in the whole of North America, so the absence didn't seem quite right to me?