Experience-Driven Leader Development: Models, Tools, Best Practices, and Advice for On-the-Job Development

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Creating the “and” Organization: Seeing Leadership Development as a Key Strategic Issue

Stephen R. Mercer

SRM Consulting, Ltd.

THE ORGANIZATIONAL PREOCCUPATION with growth, competition, globalization, and corporate responsibility can often mask the most important factor in continued business success—constructing a pipeline of leaders capable of sustained execution. It's generally accepted that leaders need to manage for and deliver results in the short term. At the same time, leaders have to be cognizant of and instigators of change to keep their organizations functioning for the long term. The challenge embedded in those expectations can ...