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Build A Better Leadership Pipeline

Jay A. Conger (CEO) and Robert M. Fulmer ask the question “What could be more vital to a company’s long-term health than the choice and cultivation of its future leaders?”

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Why Leadership Development Efforts Fail

J. Conger and D. Ready state that in the past couple of years, leadership has become the hottest topic in business. Companies see this hard-to-pin-down ability as essential to organizational success, and they want their executives to learn how to exercise it.

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Competence, Not Competencies: Making Global Executive Development Work

George P. Hollenbeck and Morgan W. McCall, Jr. share that as we begin the 21st century, evidence abounds that executive and leadership development has failed to meet expectations.

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Steve Kerr and His Years with Jack Welch at GE

Larry Greiner’s interview with Steve Kerr is about two intriguing phenomena at GE—the obvious one is Jack Welch’s leadership role, and the less obvious, while not intended by him, is Steve’s role in the background acting as Welch’s skillful consultant for 11 years.

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Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership

Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership

Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership by Craig L. Pearce and Jay A. Conger brings together the foremost thinkers on the subject and is the first book of its kind to address the conceptual, methodological, and practical issues for shared leadership.

When Two (or More) Heads are Better than One: The Promise and Pitfalls of Shared Leadership

Shared leadership is a topic that is largely ignored in the research literature. Despite this, J. O’Toole, J. Galbraith, and E. Lawler believe the topic warrants additional theoretical and empirical attention.

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Corporate Boards: Keys to Effectiveness

E. Lawler, D. Finegold, G. Benson, and J. Conger discuss how many of the changes that are occurring in the business environment have significant implications for Corporate Boards. Together they are redefining the roles and activities of boards.

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What Makes Corporate Boards Effective

E. Lawler, D. Finegold, G. Benson, and J. Conger explain that several powerful forces are currently redefining the roles and activities of boardrooms, and they are not likely to diminish but rather to accelerate.

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Economically Correct Leadership

James O’Toole, Bruce Pasternack, and Jeffrey W. Bennett Using in-depth interviews and a survey of over 6,000 executives and managers in Asia, Europe, and North America, Booz-Allen & Hamilton is creating a global database of effective (and ineffective) leadership practices.

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