INTRODUCTION
David Giber
In 2000 Louis Carter, Marshall Goldsmith, and I organized the case studies for the first edition of Linkage Inc.’s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook. It is useful to reflect on what we found then as we reviewed the outstanding case studies and research captured in that book. First, we found that the most significant differences between those examples could be derived from a general preference for one of the following: the individual, the team, or the organization and its strategy.
Analyzing the programs in this new edition, we found that many more of them had incorporated common program ingredients that have been proven widely and continuously since 2000. Many were using at least one or more element ...