The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company

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.

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.