Leadership Transitions: The Watkins Collection (4 Items)

By investing directly in creating standardized

evaluation schemes for each function, companies

can ensure that new enterprise leaders get the lay

of the land faster. But even if their rms don’t have

such systems, aspiring enterprise leaders can pre-

pare themselves by building relationships with col-

leagues in other functions, seeking to learn from

them (perhaps in exchange for insight into their

own functions) so that they can develop their own

templates.

Analyst to Integrator

The primary responsibility of functional leaders is

to recruit, develop, and manage people who focus

in analytical depth on specific business activities.

An enterprise ...