The Leadership Pipeline: How To Build The Leadership-powered Company

This is a book about how companies can build a full leadership "pipeline" to ensure a steady supply of leaders with the right skills in the right positions throughout the organization. The Leaderships Pipeline combines a framework, tools, and techniques for creating an effective company-wide leadership development and succession planning process. The authors use stories from their experience to illustrate their points.


Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Introduction
· Six Leadership Passages: An Overview
· From Managing Self to Managing Others
· From Managing Others to Managing Managers
· From Managing Mangers to Functional Manager
· From Functional Manager to Business Manager
· From Business Manager to Group Manager
· From Group Manager to Enterprise Manager
· Diagnostics: Identifying Pipeline Problems and Possibilities
· Performance Improvement: Clarifying Roles and Creating Performance Standards
· Succession Planning
· Identifying Potential Pipeline Failures
· The Functional Career Passage
· Coaching
· Benefits Up and Down the Line

Index

Market Description :
· Senior Executives
· HR Directors/Managers
· HR Consulting Professionals
· Business School Programs in leadership and executive development, HR

About Author :
Ram Charan is an independent consultant and leadership coach. He has been on the faculties of Harvard Business School and the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University. He is based in Dallas, TX.

Steve Drotter is chief executive of Drotter Human Resources, Inc. Prior to starting his own firm, he was Senior VP for Corporate Human Resources at Chase Manhattan in New York. He is based in Berwyn, PA.

Jim Noel is an independent consultant. He previously held a range of senior HR positions, most recently Vice President of Executive Development at Citibank. He is based in New York City.