Leadership Pipeline
Set up your company for long-term success by building and reinforcing your leadership pipeline
In the newly revised third edition of The Leadership Pipeline, a team of veteran leadership practitioners delivers a practical and essential framework for identifying future leaders, assessing their competence, planning their development, nurturing their talents, and analyzing the results of your efforts. The work to be done, the required skills, time application, and the necessary work values for each leadership layer are clearly defined for the digital age. The book explains how to integrate your organization’s leadership development process with a succession plan that provides your company with a ready supply of capable leaders.
You’ll discover the tools and techniques you need to knit together your succession and leadership development programs and constantly renew your leadership pipeline. You’ll also:
- Explore anecdotes and stories drawn from the authors’ extensive experience with top companies that illustrate the principles discussed in the book
- Find ways to eliminate bias and tunnel vision when identifying leadership candidates
- Learn to objectively consider the efficacy of individual leadership candidates
A powerful resource for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders at firms of all sizes, The Leadership Pipeline is an effective and insightful blueprint to future-proofing your company.
RAM CHARAN is an award-winning educator and consultant to senior business leaders and boards around the globe. He is one of the world’s bestselling business book authors with over 2 million copies sold. His book with Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy, Execution, spent 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
STEPHEN DROTTER is Chairman of the Leadership Pipeline Institute. For over 50 years he has been actively involved in succession planning, executive assessments and leadership development. His work provides the source material for his books, which include The Performance Pipeline, as well as co-authorship of The Success Pipeline and Pipeline to The Future.
JIM NOEL is a retired consultant and leadership coach who assisted companies in the selection, assessment, and development of key leadership teams. He is a former manager of Executive Education and Leadership Effectiveness at GE.
KENT JONASEN is CEO of the Leadership Pipeline Institute and works with large organizations on strategic succession planning and development for leaders and experts. Previous to this role, Kent was Deputy Head of Human Resources at Maersk and is the author of the bestselling book The Specialist Pipeline: Winning the War for Specialist Talent.