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The Leadership Pipeline
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The Leadership Pipeline

How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company

Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter and James Noel
Jossey-Bass, 2000

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Recommendation

Organizations need leaders, but natural leaders are at least as rare as natural athletes. And, even natural athletes need careful training and development – given that almost everyone is capable of developing some degree of athletic potential. Similarly, the right training and development program can help almost anyone build leadership potential. In fact, it can help a few people develop extraordinary leadership abilities. Yet, at many companies, short-term priorities eclipse the long-term thinking needed to develop a good leadership pipeline. Author Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter and James Noel take a plain, sensible approach. If you are a leader or need to develop leaders for large corporations, this is a very useful volume.

Take-Aways

  • Executives typically pass through six stages of career growth.
  • The hardest transition is from self-management to managing other workers.
  • When you manage other managers, you must learn to communicate with your employees by going through other people.

About the Authors

Ram Charan is an independent consultant, leadership coach and the author or co-author of numerous business books, including Boards at Work, Boards that Lead, What the CEO Wants You to Know and Every Business is a Growth Business. Stephen Drotter, author of The Succession Planning Handbook for the CEO and The Performance Pipeline, helped design General Electric’s succession planning process. James Noel is an executive coach and co-author of Action Learning.

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    c. f. 6 years ago
    Good functional summary. I listened to the entire book on audible. I needed to have a reference document to start applying to my own career. This is super helpful in this context.