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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few. They are eager to learn new skills and take on additional responsibilities and bigger challenges.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business Review

This company, which stretched into all sorts of industries and markets, offering numerous strategic challenges, should have been an ideal training ground for executives. The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing.