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

by Ram Charan (Formerly Harvard Business School and the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern Univ.); Stephen Drotter (Drotter Human Resources, Inc.); James Noel (Formerly Citibank)

• ISBN13: 9780787951726
• ISBN10: 0787951722
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xvii
About the Authors	xix
Introduction	1	(14)
Six Leadership Passages: An Overview	15	(18)
From Managing Self to Managing Others	33	(18)
From Managing Others to Managing Managers	51	(14)
From Managing Managers to Functional Manager	65	(16)
From Functional Manager to Business Manager	81	(18)
From Business Manager to Group Manager	99	(16)
From Group Manager to Enterprise Manager	115	(16)
Diagnostics: Identifying Pipeline Problems and Possibilities	131	(12)
Performance Improvement: Clarifying Roles and Creating Performance Standards	143	(22)
Succession Planning	165	(18)
Identifying Potential Pipeline Failures	183	(14)
The Functional Career Passage	197	(16)
Coaching	213	(12)
Benefits Up and Down the Line	225	(18)
Index	243