N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. But “transformed” how and towards what? The current leadership pipelines do not work.

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Leadership Agility Leadership Pipeline Welch 392

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

We’ve seen these changes in our own lifetimes, and even over the span of a single career. As Jack Welch put it, “the books got thicker, the printing got more sophisticated, the covers got harder and the drawing got better,” but none of that improved how enterprises performed. Yet still, it must be done.

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Strategy Uncertainty Welch Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Mastering digital requires leaders to be agile amid disruption. As described in Lead The Work , he had an expansive career with Shell that spanned 25 years but unlike many top leaders in the company, he had a break in service at the top of his career. Consider the case of Peter Voser, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Some companies have tried to neutralize this effect by training the manager how to look for specific clues to the desired strength or skill. Earlier this month, in a spirited defense of the forced curve, Jack Welch advocated rating people on lists of competencies so that you can, in his words, “let them know where they stand.”

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Management System Learning-by-Doing Welch 10