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

Great Leadership By Dan

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

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Why Middle Managers Need to “Fire” Themselves as Supervisors

Great Leadership By Dan

According to Charon, Drotter, and Noel, from their classic book The Leadership Pipeline , the most important things middle managers need to do are: 1. Unfortunately, while many organizations provide training for first-line managers, not many train their managers how to manage managers. Deploy and redeploy resources among units.

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The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. Managing others and teams involves learning out to hire, train, establish performance measures, reward, and punish. Unless you are an heir to a throne, people usually don’t begin their careers leading a large organization.

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The Leadership Pipeline

CEO Blog

The Leadership Pipeline - How to Build the Leadership Powered Company by Ram Charan , Steve Drotter and Jim Noel was awesome. I'm currently preparing myself for transition from managing managers to hiring/training and managing functional/general managers. It is a must read for any aspiring leader at any level.

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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. Recently, I became aware of the case of a Tokyo-based global conglomerate with a highly diversified business portfolio that could not find even one qualified CEO successor.