Leaders at All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis

183 Pages·2007·0.68 MB·English

by  Ram Charan

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Leaders at
All Levels
Deepening Your Talent Pool to
Solve the Succession Crisis
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Leaders at All Levels
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Ram Charan
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Leaders at
All Levels
Deepening Your Talent Pool to
Solve the Succession Crisis
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Charan, Ram.
Leaders at all levels: deepening your talent pool to solve the succession crisis /
Ram Charan.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7879-8559-2 (cloth)
1. Leadership. 2. Executive succession—Planning. I. Title.
HD57.7.C47374 2008
658.4'092—dc22 2007026429
Printed in the United States of America
FIRSTEDITION
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CONTENTS
Rebuilding Succession and Leadership Development 1
from the Ground Up
1 A New Way to Fund the Leadership Talent Deficit 5
2 How Apprenticeship Turns Potential into Leaders 25
3 How to Recognize Leadership Potential 41
4 Customizing Leaders’ Growth Paths 61
5 The Crucial Role of Bosses 79
6 Managing Apprenticeship Systematically 105
7 Choosing the CEO Who Is Most Likely 117
to Be Successful
8 Adopting the Apprenticeship Model 143
Epilogue: What Can a Leader Do? 153
Appendix: Building Blocks of the 159
Apprenticeship Model
Acknowledgments 163
About Ram Charan 165
Index 167
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Dedicated to the hearts and souls of the joint family of twelve
siblingsand cousins living under one roof for fifty years whose
personal sacrifices made my formal education possible.
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Leaders at All Levels