Harvard Business Review on Developing High-Potential Leaders
What's the best contribution you can make to your organization? Develop your employees' leadership abilities. But hows do you cultivate leadership talent? When is it time to promote a promising employee into management? And how do you help novice leaders make this difficult transition? This collection provides the advice and examples you need to get your next generation of leaders on track-and keep them there.\ The series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental...
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Many companies do not provide their managers with adequate development programs, failing to recognize how often new managers can become overwhelmed. How can you prevent your most promising employees from being derailed? Should you schedule more coaching or training - or is it simply too soon to promote an employee to the next level? In a world of intensifying talent wars, companies that can develop high-potential leaders throughout their ranks stand the best chance of consistently trouncing rivals. As a manager, you play a crucial role in cultivating leadership skills in your own teams. In this book, you'll find a wealth of strategies for fulfilling this key responsibility, such as: When to promote a rising star to management -- and why promoting too early can jeopardize a star's career and your company How to help newly minted team leaders avoid the classic errors that trip up beginners The predictable stages leaders must go through to master the job of heading a new business or large division Ways to tailor your development strategies to four types of leaders-in-trainingThis collection of HBR articles provides a range of advice on the best ways for companies to keep their next generation of leaders on the right track.
When a New Manager Takes Charge John J. GaBarro 1The Young and the Clueless Kerry A. Bunker Kathy E. Kram Sharon Ting 39Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves Carol A. Walker 61Personalize Your Management Development Natalie Shope Griffin 79Developing First-Level Leaders Andreas Priestland Robert Hanig 97Myth of the Well-Educated Manager J. Sterling Livingston 119Becoming the Boss Linda A. Hill 149Discovering Your Authentic Leadership Bill George Peter Sims Andrew N. Mclean Diana Mayer 171About the Contributors 193Index 195
