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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. Managing organizations involves optimizing a number of different functions in order to create a product or service and archive measurable organizational outcomes. There’s a progression of passages, or at least there should be.

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

Great Leadership By Dan

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business Review

The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing. In sum, none were suitable candidates to succeed the CEO. But that potential had been squandered. You and Your Team Series. Learning to Learn. Erika Andersen.