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The Leadership Pipeline

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Tuesday, January 04, 2011 The Leadership Pipeline I often read more than one book at once. The Leadership Pipeline - How to Build the Leadership Powered Company by Ram Charan , Steve Drotter and Jim Noel was awesome. The book talks about 6 passages of leadership.

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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. It’s one of the oldest and most frequent recipes for failure! Managing managers is way different that managing individual contributors. Select and hire capable first-line managers.

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Which will get you Promoted to CEO: Nasty or Nice?

Great Leadership By Dan

High energy levels to adequately accommodate the increase in time demands that occurs between ascending levels of leadership. · A take-charge approach , characterized by a more directive style of leadership that entails regularly delegating tasks and imposing action. .

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Consider the myriad leadership competencies you have been asked to develop over the years. The objective was to build leadership capacity and ensure bench strength to fill the leadership pipeline as a significant percentage of its management ranks nears retirement age. Line them up horizontally from left to right.

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No Joke: The April 1st, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

People often mistake delegation for empowerment, yet in a networked world empowerment becomes even more vital.”. Susan Mazza from Random Acts of Leadership presents The Key to Being Adaptable. “If What does the Millennial generation seek in leadership development opportunities and do generational stereotypes get in the way?

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Companies Are Bad at Identifying High-Potential Employees

Harvard Business Review

We find that people who lack leadership skills don’t trust direct reports enough to delegate assignments and involve others. For the organization, there are several risks to filling your HIPO program with people who don’t actually possess leadership potential. This leaves them drowning in commitments.

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Why CEOs Don’t Get Fired as Often as They Used To

Harvard Business Review

We found that failed successions are typically a result of boards not paying close enough attention to the senior leadership pipeline. Instead, they’ve often delegated the job of finding a replacement to the incumbent CEO. If a failed CEO succession is so costly, then how does it happen?

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