The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company - Hardcover

Ram Charan; Stephen Drotter; James Noel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787951722 ISBN 13: 9780787951726

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 2000

Synopsis

Together, these authors have more first-hand experience in leadership development and succession planning than you're likely to find anywhere else. And here, they show companies how to create a pipeline of talent that will continuously fill their leadership needs-needs they may not even yet realize. The Leadership Pipeline delivers a proven framework for priming future leaders by planning for their development, coaching them, and measuring the results of those efforts. Moreover, the book presents a combination leadership-development/succession-planning program that ensures a steady line-up of leaders for every critical position within the company. It's an approach that bolsters the retention of intellectual capital as it eliminates the need to go outside for expensive "stars," who will probably jump ship before they reach their full potential anyway.

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About the Author

Ram Charan is a leadership coach and a past faculty member of Harvard Business School and the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University. He is author of Boards at Work and coauthor of Every Business is a Growth Business. He lives in Dallas, Texas. Steve Drotter is chief executive of Drotter Human Resources, Inc. He lives in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Jim Noel is an executive consultant and formerly vice president of Executive Development at Citibank and lives in New York City.

Reviews

One of management's biggest challenges is finding new leaders, and one of the questions that arises in this quest is whether to bring in "new blood" and fresh ideas or take advantage of "home-grown" experts already acclimated to an organization's corporate culture. The current labor shortage and a greater willingness by younger workers to change jobs have only added to this challenge. Recent books such as High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders (1998) and Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People [BKL Ag 00] have weighed in on the side of "growing your own," and now Charan and his coauthors add their support. Charan is a "leadership coach" and has written extensively for academic and popular business journals. He and two fellow consultants describe the natural hierarchy of work that exists in most organizations, which takes the form of six career passages that the authors call the "leadership pipeline." For leaders to progress, they must be working within each passage at a level appropriate to their skills, values, and use of time. David Rouse
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Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787951722
• ISBN 13: 9780787951726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248