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Bench Strength
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Bench Strength

by Robert W. Barner
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h
English
AMACOM
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CQUISITION
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organizationa l resistanc e, as m ore established managers fin d cre-
ative ways to bl ock th eir in itiatives.
This strategy c an als o prove to be very c ostly in the short run,
both in th e high compensation packages that will need to b e paid
to exceptional leade rs, an d in the seve rance packages that wil l be
paid to displac ed man agers .
Another d rawba ck with the use of t his strategy is that it can
pose a huge recr uitin g challenge for an organizati on. If a company
is se ekin g to trade up to str onger performers because i t has all owed
its leade rship bench to degrade over time, th is fac t will usually
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ISBN: 9780814429402