 LEADERS
AT ALL LEVELS
Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve
the Succession Crisis
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In Leaders at All
Levels, Ram Charan addresses a pressing problem—a shortfall of
leaders prepared to face the complexity of today's business
challenges. When so many companies struggle to find successors for
their top jobs, and when so many leaders rise to the top but fail
shortly thereafter, you know there's something wrong with our
succession and leadership development practices.
This book presents a
radical and controversial remedy for the succession crisis: the
Apprenticeship Model. This new approach to succession and leadership
development makes it a hands-on activity for leaders and their
bosses.
Under the Apprenticeship
Model, people with the talent for leadership get stiff challenges
hand-picked for them. Their bosses play a crucial role in
accelerating their development. And HR gets a new job, as trustee of
the Apprenticeship system. As a result, leaders at all levels
develop faster and better, and boards have better choices when it
comes time to choose the next CEO.
Leaders at All Levels
describes how and why the Apprenticeship Model works and provides
the tools you need to adopt it.
Based on Charan’s decades of experience and keen insights
into how leaders actually learn and grow, this book is filled with
down-to-earth advice and real-world examples.
It shows how you can leave an enduring legacy by building
your company’s leadership bench strength.
It also gives a road map for taking charge of your own
growth. And it is a
useful reference for best practices in choosing successors for
leadership jobs at all levels, including the CEO.
Published by Jossey-Bass
December 21, 2007
hardcover / 192 pages
ISBN: 0787985597 |
