Building Leaders: How Successful Companies Develop the Next Generation / Edition 1

by Jay A. Conger, Beth Benjamin

Overview

Base your leadership development programs on proven-to-work techniques. In Building Leaders, authors Conger and Benjamin examine the very best practices of American and foreign companies to present a comprehensive plan for developing leadership talent at every organizational level. Here, readers will find an in-depth presentation of the specific skill sets that individual managers need in order to lead. They'll also discover which organizational values promote leadership, examine successful strategic interventions, and see what a successful leadership plan looks like. Equally illuminating is the section on plans that are destined to fail, along with the section on the future of leadership that shows readers how to design development programs that are most likely to last.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787944698
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/28/1999
Series:	Jossey-Bass Leadership Series , #27
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.55(h) x 1.08(d)

About the Author

JAY A. CONGER is the director of the University of SouthernCalifornia's Leadership Institute and the author of Learning toLead. Named Business Week's Best Professor to Teach Leadership toExecutives, he has served on the faculties of the Harvard BusinessSchool, McGill University, and INSEAD, and is an internationallyrecognized leadership expert. BETH BENJAMIN,Ph.D., is a leadershipconsultant for Booz'Allen & Hamilton and has conductedextensive research with the University of Southern California'sLeadership Institute and RAND Corporation.

Table of Contents

Preface.

The Authors.

The New Imperative: Building Effective Leaders Throughout theCompany.

OUT OF THE CLASSROOM, INTO THE TRENCHES: EVALUATING APPROACHES TOCORPORATE LEADRERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.

Developing the Individual Leader.

How National Australia Bank Develops Leaders.

Socializing Company Vision and Values.

How Federal Express and PepsiCo Socialize Vision and Values.

Strategic Leadership Initiatives.

Ernst Young's Leadership 2000 Strategic LeadershipInitiative.

THE FUTURE IS NOW: BUILDING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LEADERS.

Action Learning: The New Paradigm for Leadership Development.

What Matters: Competencies for the New Century.

References.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"A must read for all executives and managers, emerging, ascAnding,arriving, and all points beyond! Building Leaders is the singlebest source I know for original ideas on how to develop and retainexemplary leaders."—Warren Bennis, professor, Marshall School ofBusiness, University of Southern California, and co-author ofCo-Leaders

"Highly readable and useful, this is THE book for guidingleadership development decisions within organizationstoday."—Patrick Canavan, senior vice president and director,Global Leadership and Organizational Development, Motorola

"Jay Conger and Beth Benjamin bring clarity and insight to thevast, almost boundless, domain of leadership development. BuildingLeaders helps you both to assess the impact of current approachesand to powerfully build a strategy that will develop leadershiptalent at all levels of your organization."—Mike Morrison, dean,Toyota University

From the Publisher

Consultants Conger and Benjamin look at the successes and failures of more than a dozen organizations in order to provide a blueprint for effectively cultivating a continuous crop of talented leaders. They identify and examine three principal approaches to leadership education: individual skill development, instilling organizational values that promote leadership, and strategic interventions. They also study the popular technique of action learning as a training paradigm. Individual case studies illustrate best practices in an array of business sectors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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