Product Description

Within the next few years, "baby boomer" leaders and managers will be retiring in huge numbers. From the executive suite on down, the challenge to put the right person in place for every job is becoming acute. The potential shortfall means organizations must put succession planning at the top of their priority lists. Growing Your Company's Leaders offers the results of a study of five global leaders in succession strategy: Dow Chemical, Dell Computer, Eli Lilly, Pan Canadian Petroleum, and Sonoco. Readers will learn what these and sixteen other high-profile organizations are doing to identify, secure, and prepare the next generation of leaders.

This book examines:

* the link between succession management and business strategy * the architecture of good plans and how technology can make them better * the importance of individual employee development * why senior management support is crucial * how to monitor the effectiveness of the succession management system.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #318618 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
"If you believe that people are the key to any successful enterprise, then "Growing Your Company's Leaders" is key reading." -- CIO, March 2004

"The book tackles the major issues in getting succession management right, with abundant examples from the best practice companies." -- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Review

The Globe and Mail (Toronto): “The book tackles the major issues in getting succession management right, with abundant examples from the best practice companies. . . The result is an easy-to-read, comprehensive picture of where your company should be on succession management."

About the Author

Robert M. Fulmer (Santa Barbara, CA) teaches at Pepperdine University and is the academic director of Duke Corporate Education. His books include Leadership by Design and The Leadership Investment (0-8144-0558-4). Jay A. Conger (Manhattan Beach, CA) is Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and teaches at London Business School. He has written or contributed to numerous books, including Corporate Boards .

Customer Reviews

Best practices in succession
Bob Fulmer was my dissertation supervisor when he was a professor at Georgia State University and I was in the doctoral program. I am a Board member for a $300 million portfolio of healthcare companies and was recently charged with succession planning. In my review of the literature, I ran across Bob's book and purchased it. It is a best practices study of the succession planning of six global companies and therefore oriented to the needs of large, if not multinational companies, rather than entrepreneurial, founder in control business, such as ours is. It is well researched and well written as I would have suspected.