Leaders at All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis (Jossey-Bass Leadership Series) - Tapa dura

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RAM CHARAN is a world-renowned advisor to business leaders and corporate boards, a bestselling author, and an award-winning teacher. He is the author or coauthor of fourteen books including Know-How, What the CEO Wants You to Know, Boards that Deliver, and the New York Times best-seller Execution.

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LEADERS AT ALL LEVELS

"CRISIS MAY BE AN OVERUSED WORD, but it's a fair description of the state of leadership in today's corporations. CEOs are failing sooner, and falling harder, leaving companies in turmoil. At all levels, companies are short on the quantity and quality of leaders they need." —From the Introduction

In Leaders at All Levels, Ram Charan addresses a pressing problem—a shortfall of leaders prepared to face today's complex business challenges. When so many companies struggle to find successors for their top jobs, and when so many leaders rise to the top only to fail shortly after getting there, you know there's something wrong with our leadership development practices.

In this book, Ram Charan presents a radical and controversial remedy for the crisis in leadership: the Apprenticeship Model. This new approach to succession and to leadership development makes it a hands-on activity for leaders and their bosses. People with the talent for leadership get stiff challenges hand-picked for them. Their bosses play a crucial role in accelerating their development. HR gets a new job, as trustee of the Apprenticeship system. Leaders at all levels develop faster and better, and boards have better choices when it comes time to choose the next CEO.

New but not untested, this approach works because it is based on Charan's keen insights into how great business leaders actually develop. Having worked closely with many successful leaders over several decades, Charan concluded that:

• Leaders are different from other people
• Leaders develop their talent through practice and self-correction

Filled with down-to-earth advice and real-world examples, Leaders at All Levels gives you the tools you need to create an enduring legacy of leadership excellence. It also gives individual leaders a road map for taking charge of their own growth.