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

Great Leadership By Dan

Yes, I do realize that given the current economic environment and cost cutting – especially around training unfortunately – some of these companies may have their programs on hold or scaled back to fewer numbers of attendees.). References. Succession: Are You Ready? Author: Marshall Goldsmith; Publisher: Harvard Business Press, 2009.

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Leaders, Choose Your Words Wisely

Harvard Business Review

My professor, Ram Charan, noticed that my schoolwork was starting to slip. I had been with General Mills for six months and I was up for my first performance review. I had never worked in an office environment before in my life. For instance, when I was a first year graduate student at the J. I was stretched pretty thin.

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Most Doctors Have Little or No Management Training, and That’s a Problem

Harvard Business Review

In an environment of intense cost pressures, we believe it’s more economically sustainable in the long run for a health care organization to have a single, highly effective physician leader running the business and holding both clinical and administrative responsibilities, rather than bifurcating the role.