What are the top 20 U.S. companies recognized for leadership doing right to ensure more and better leaders, ready to step up quickly?
Here are the best practices of these top 20 companies known for leadership development in 2006:
*1. Having leaders at all levels who focus on creating a work climate that motivates employees for peak performance.
*2. Ensuring the company and senior management make leadership development a top priority
*3. Providing training and coaching to help intact leadership teams, as well as individual leaders, work together more effectively
4. Rotational job assignments for high potentials
5. External leadership development programs for mid-level managers
6. Web-based self-study leadership modules for mid-level managers
7. Executive MBA programs for mid-level managers
Top companies are beginning to understand that sustaining peak performance requires a commitment to developing leaders at all levels.
Leadership is a contact sport that takes place on the field of relationships between leaders and their colleagues. Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.
Effective leadership coaching happens on the dance floor of conversation.
The question do better leaders come from within the system or outside is complex. There is not a one size fits all answer. It depends on the type of company, the success of the company and existing leadership pool. If the company is not succeeding with the current leadership a fresh perspective may be warranted. However, there maybe unintended consequences, e.g. loss of customers, talented employees, and the frictional costs associated with change. Remember not too long ago a big box home improvement retailer brought in outside leadership who lasted approx 1 year. The new leader has to be a master of leading and managing change.I believe companies who create a culture of recruiting, hiring, and developing leaders from within are positioned for building a sustainable business model.
Depends on what you understand by system, for example a good leader of a law firm must come from the legal system , on the otherhand if you mean a good leader must come from within the law firm that is erroneous, often times good leaders come from similar organizations bringing in new methods juxtaposed with the particular organizations methods, infact the outsider or bystander is usually better placed to locate weaknesses than those in the organization, new leaders from the outside have turned around companies, look at pepsi cola and the lady director who boosted it of late ,such is the power of intervention.
It doesn't matter where a person comes from. It doesn't matter what your job title is. The people that can empower, inspire and challenge others to take the right risks will always be the better leaders.
IMHO, it depends on the company's current level of success. If the company is doing well for their customers, an insider is very likely to be the best choice to continue the company's success, whereas an outsider is more likely to put their foot wrong while establishing their leadership role.
However, if the company is not doing well, the insider may not have the kind of objective perspective or strength of will to make the necessary changes in the company. An outsider in that situation would be starting with an outside perspective and the necessity of ensuring the company's survival. Therefore, they'd have less hesitation than an insider about changing anything about the company, including management if that's where the problems truly lay.
As a journalist who writes for the establishment (Robb Report mags, Miami Herald, Modern Luxury mags) and has an ezine (http://www.DesignCommotion.com) where I have developed a platform for my own ideas, I believe trend-setting leaders come from outside the system.
When Earthlings are sufficiently developed to accept a certain proportion of corporate leaders from other inter-galactic systems, this would be a healthy development. The outsider's eye (or viewing device)provides the organisation with a new perspective.
The problem of course is how to combine this new way of looking at things with an appreciation of such factors as "loyalty," "trust" and "experience." Earthling leaders who currently inhabit the land mass to the west of the Atlantic Ocean (not the triangular continent, but the one to the north) are quite bad at this.
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April 30, 2008 at 1:08pm
John AgnoWhat are the top 20 U.S. companies recognized for leadership doing right to ensure more and better leaders, ready to step up quickly?
Here are the best practices of these top 20 companies known for leadership development in 2006:
*1. Having leaders at all levels who focus on creating a work climate that motivates employees for peak performance.
*2. Ensuring the company and senior management make leadership development a top priority
*3. Providing training and coaching to help intact leadership teams, as well as individual leaders, work together more effectively
4. Rotational job assignments for high potentials
5. External leadership development programs for mid-level managers
6. Web-based self-study leadership modules for mid-level managers
7. Executive MBA programs for mid-level managers
Top companies are beginning to understand that sustaining peak performance requires a commitment to developing leaders at all levels.
Leadership is a contact sport that takes place on the field of relationships between leaders and their colleagues. Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.
Effective leadership coaching happens on the dance floor of conversation.
April 14, 2008 at 2:24pm
Tony FridayThe question do better leaders come from within the system or outside is complex. There is not a one size fits all answer. It depends on the type of company, the success of the company and existing leadership pool. If the company is not succeeding with the current leadership a fresh perspective may be warranted. However, there maybe unintended consequences, e.g. loss of customers, talented employees, and the frictional costs associated with change. Remember not too long ago a big box home improvement retailer brought in outside leadership who lasted approx 1 year. The new leader has to be a master of leading and managing change.I believe companies who create a culture of recruiting, hiring, and developing leaders from within are positioned for building a sustainable business model.
April 11, 2008 at 5:32am
Charles MatovuDepends on what you understand by system, for example a good leader of a law firm must come from the legal system , on the otherhand if you mean a good leader must come from within the law firm that is erroneous, often times good leaders come from similar organizations bringing in new methods juxtaposed with the particular organizations methods, infact the outsider or bystander is usually better placed to locate weaknesses than those in the organization, new leaders from the outside have turned around companies, look at pepsi cola and the lady director who boosted it of late ,such is the power of intervention.
April 1, 2008 at 9:06am
Alli BretonIt doesn't matter where a person comes from. It doesn't matter what your job title is. The people that can empower, inspire and challenge others to take the right risks will always be the better leaders.
March 31, 2008 at 6:13pm
David AinsburgIMHO, it depends on the company's current level of success. If the company is doing well for their customers, an insider is very likely to be the best choice to continue the company's success, whereas an outsider is more likely to put their foot wrong while establishing their leadership role.
However, if the company is not doing well, the insider may not have the kind of objective perspective or strength of will to make the necessary changes in the company. An outsider in that situation would be starting with an outside perspective and the necessity of ensuring the company's survival. Therefore, they'd have less hesitation than an insider about changing anything about the company, including management if that's where the problems truly lay.
March 29, 2008 at 12:36pm
Betty Mickaoutside system
March 29, 2008 at 9:37am
Martijn SjoordaNo, if the system does not pay attention to the needs for personal & professional development of its people.
March 29, 2008 at 9:36am
Martijn SjoordaYes, if the system also consciously and diligently develops them in alignment with the system's values and must win battles.
March 29, 2008 at 9:20am
Saxon HenryAs a journalist who writes for the establishment (Robb Report mags, Miami Herald, Modern Luxury mags) and has an ezine (http://www.DesignCommotion.com) where I have developed a platform for my own ideas, I believe trend-setting leaders come from outside the system.
March 29, 2008 at 5:40am
Offyd GrinipuffsWhen Earthlings are sufficiently developed to accept a certain proportion of corporate leaders from other inter-galactic systems, this would be a healthy development. The outsider's eye (or viewing device)provides the organisation with a new perspective.
The problem of course is how to combine this new way of looking at things with an appreciation of such factors as "loyalty," "trust" and "experience." Earthling leaders who currently inhabit the land mass to the west of the Atlantic Ocean (not the triangular continent, but the one to the north) are quite bad at this.
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