The authors are both experienced business people with years of expertise in the field.  Dayton Ogden is chairman of Spencer Stuart, where he served for nine years as the firm’s chief executive.  His search consulting practice focuses on CEO succession and board recruiting for a large range of international clients.  He is on the board of the American Business Conference and is secretary and a director of Project HOPE.

“That is why we have come to believe that CEOs need to learn what they can from others who have acquired, largely by trial-and-error, insights into how to run a company. We believe there is an immense and largely untapped body of knowledge on these subjects.  It resides among the fraternity of experienced, seasoned, and retired CEOs who have been working in the trenches for many years.  They may well be the best “executive education” resource for current and future CEOs.”