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7 Guiding Principles for Developing Leadership Talent

Leading Blog

As a leader you need to know how to judge raw human talent. In The Talent Masters , Bill Conaty and Ram Charan explain how to do it. That leads us to Conaty and Charan’s first principle of the talent masters: The leadership team understands that the top priority for the future is developing the talent that will get it there.

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Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First

Leading Blog

Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey write in Talent Wins : Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of talent, yet the talent practices in their organizations use are vestiges of another era. This is a group that consists of the CEO, the CFO, and the CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer).

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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. However, they use the terms “leadership” and “management” interchangeably. What if we took a simplified version of the Pipeline model, and mash it with a distinction between leadership and management?

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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

Liz Alexander (who I interviewed in 2013 on the topic of thought leadership ) and Naveen Lakkur (Director, Founder Institute, India) wrote a new book titled “ FOUND – Transforming Your Unlimited Ideas Into One Sustainable Business ”. How to Establish Thought Leadership? Let us offer a story from the book to illustrate what we mean.

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Do Not Split HR – At Least Not Ram Charan’s Way

Harvard Business Review

Much of Charan’s recent work has tilted towards organization and people (books on strategy execution, leadership pipeline, talent and advice on intensity, change, leadership traits, performance management, governance). Charan’s latest column actually affirms the value of HR to sustained competitiveness.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic

Harvard Business Review

A few months ago, Ram Charan proposed splitting HR into two parts: one to oversee leadership and organization, and one to handle administration. My company recently surveyed 525 Millennials (people born after 1979) to understand their views on learning and leadership development. Hiring Human resources Talent management'