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Preventing Derailment: What To Do Before It's Too Late
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Preventing Derailment: What To Do Before It's Too Late

by Michael Lombardo, Robert Eichinger
January 1989
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
48 pages
1h 27m
English
Center for Creative Leadership
Content preview from Preventing Derailment: What To Do Before It's Too Late

Feedback on an Effectiveness and Derailment Profile

Many organizations have armchair effectiveness profiles (meaning what attributes top managers think they possess or ought to possess), a few have data-based ones, but only a smattering have derailment profiles. In our experience working with these profiles, many are flawed in at least some of the following ways: too much emphasis on technical/functional knowledge, too many murky terms like vision and aggressiveness, too limited a notion of what effectiveness is, and no measurement of flaws.

Recommendation 1. Develop a data-based behavioral effectiveness and derailment profile. The mechanics of this are beyond the scope of a discussion of preventing derailment, so we will restrict the discussion ...

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ISBN: 9780912879369