Leadership Pipeline, 3rd Edition

Welcome

We believe you will find this book helpful, clear, concise, and most of all useful—as many, many other people have.

Substantial benefits are derived from using the Leadership Pipeline framework. Chief executives have told us that using the Leadership Pipeline accomplishes many things:

• Changes the dialogue at the executive table, focusing more on strategy and talent, not just revenue and profit
• Helps push accountability down the organization in a coherent way; frees those at the top to focus more on the future while lower levels drive productivity and early operating results
• Produces common standards for both performance and potential, differentiated by layer of leadership
• Inspires better coaching, given the improved clarity of expectations for all involved
• Provides a competitive advantage
• Serves as an invaluable resource for developing leaders at all levels

Human resources leaders have told us they now can do important work better:

• Focus coursework on the job to be done rather than on generic skills
• Anchor succession planning on what potential means and what it looks like
• Talk about people matters in a consistent way
• Have a framework for assessing and developing our own leadership talent
• Have leadership concepts that are enduring and simple enough that leaders at every level can quickly grasp what it means to be an effective leader

The overwhelmingly positive response to the first edition of The Leadership Pipeline (published in 2001) led to the second edition, ...