Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management

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Global Leadership Development

Noel M. Tichy

An organization that develops leaders at all levels gains a competitive advantage in today’s global, increasingly knowledge-based economy. At the end of the last century, leaders won with brains, not brawn. Thus, in developing leadership, the dependent variable is honing leaders’ judgment capacity. In our book Judgment, Warren Bennis and I conclude that the essential genome of leadership is judgment. To make good leadership judgments, leaders need to develop skill and knowledge in three fundamental areas:

People —deciding who is on the team or off the team and how to develop those who are on ...