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Video Book Club: The Leadership Pipeline

Next Level Blog

In the video review, I walk through the simple yet resonant model of career path transitions that the authors Charan, Drotter and Noel outline in the book. The book has been around for about ten years and it’s become a go to resource for anyone charged with developing senior leaders. Your comment has not yet been posted.

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Why Middle Managers Need to “Fire” Themselves as Supervisors

Great Leadership By Dan

Given that I try to avoid politics in this blog, please allow me the indulgence of referencing a headline from my favorite sport to make a point about leadership: Chiefs' Romeo Crennel fires himself. as team's defensive coordinator. It’s one of the oldest and most frequent recipes for failure!

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

Great Leadership By Dan

Team leadership. Any skills that are not needed or used now by the senior leadership team, but may be used at a later time, should be considered when developing the leadership training program. For example, many effective leaders have the following strengths: •Coaching others. Influencing skills. Communication.

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How New Managers Can Send the Right Leadership Signals

Harvard Business Review

At this juncture, what you think, what you say, and how you show up — in effect, your leadership presence — can have a direct impact on those you are now leading and managing for the first time. Set a leadership values-based goal. ” You and Your Team Series. Becoming a Manager.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business Review

The most successful leaders are the ones who continue to learn and grow, and the best way to help yourself – or your team — do that is through assignments that involve increasing complexity. You and Your Team Series. One key lesson I’ve drawn from all this experience? But that potential had been squandered.