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Acceleration pools: a new method of succession management. Your organization’s success is defined by one factor: the quality of your leaders. But developing great leaders has never been tougher. Now, drawing on experience with over 1,600 organizations, three renowned leadership consultants show exactly how to identify tomorrow’s best leaders within your organization, accelerate their development and deployment, and maximize their value to your organization. Comprehensive and practical, Grow Your Own Leaders covers every phase of executive development and succession, introducing high-impact, no-bureaucracy techniques that work. You’ll discover how to align executive development with corporate strategy; how to take full advantage of short-term assignments, professional coaching, and other new approaches; and how to ensure accountability and measure results. Yesterday’s rigid, static executive succession programs have become a key obstacle to success. Grow Your Own Leaders introduces a flexible, high-speed approach designed for tomorrow’s companies in tomorrow’s marketplace-and shows you exactly how to implement it, from start to finish. * The crisis of executive leadershipand why conventional solutions don’t work Effective leadership has never been more crucial-or in shorter supply * Best practices for identifying “high potentials” in your own organization Why you should focus internallyand how to identify outstanding leaders who aren’t “bubbling to the top” * “Acceleration Pools”: bringing newflexibility to executive succession Breakthrough executive development techniques that reflect the realities of today’s organizations * Delivering leaders fast, to meet tomorrow’s challengeswhatever they are When opportunity knocks, will you have leaders ready to take advantage of it? * From assessment to results: translating diagnosis into action Individualized executive development that delivers on the promise you’ve identified * 4 ways to turbocharge executive growthand minimize HR bureaucracy High-impact solutions that require fewer forms, and fewer meetings! Turbocharge executive development in your organization! Identify tomorrow’s best leaderswithin your own organization Develop potential leaders more quickly and effectively than ever before Gain leadership flexibility for addressing any new business challengeimmediately Align your executive development programs to support your strategic objectives Transform yesterday’s executive succession systems to support today’s flat, fast-changing organizations Today, virtually every enterprise faces a profound leadership crisis-and the speed of business has far outstripped yesterday’s succession planning systems. In Grow Your Own Leaders, three world-renowned experts introduce an entirely new approach for identifying tomorrow’s leaders within your own organization. Using DDI’sbreakthrough Acceleration Pool techniques, you’ll groom new leaders faster than everand discover how to deploy them immediately, to address new challenges wherever they emerge. Drawing on their experience developing executive succession programs for companies ranging from GM to Steelcase, the authors cover every aspect of leadership development and succession planning. You’ll learn how to identify what kind of executives your organization will need, then diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of your “high potential” candidates, and master four powerful strategies for accelerating executive development. From roles and processes to metrics and accountability, Grow Your Own Leaders is the only guide to enterprise leadership that reflects today’s business realities. No matter how fast your organization or marketplace evolves, this book will help you identify, develop, and retain the executive talent you need to win. “Grow Your Own Leaders is the greatest book on the subject of development of current and future leaders that I have ever read.” John Lankford Senior Director of Learning and Development Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. “Grow Your Own Leaders should become a required reading for all Human Resource professionals.” Bob Parks Director of Recruiting Eli Lilly and Company “Grow Your Own Leaders provides a timely and much needed new approach to successionmanagement that resolves the issues with traditional succession management methods. Acceleration Pools provides the flexibility to identify our leadership talent, development and retain that talent, and create much needed leadership bench strength imperative for our future success.” Sam Heltman Senior Vice President Administration Toyota Manufacturing North America, Inc. “The timeliness and appeal of Grow Your Own Leaders resonates well. It addresses a critical aspect of organization process essential to meet challenges companies continue to face in dealing with the War for Talent.” Tim Walker (& Danielle Walker) Director of The Center for Leadership Development Bristol-Myers Squibb Company “This book is a useful, easy-to-use, practical book that does NOT dwell on academic theory. I love your book because it is IMMEDIATELY USEFUL and will help me to influence leaders in my company in a concise and what’s-in-it-for-them fashion.” Antigoni Mallen Succession Planning and Executive Development AT&T Wireless Services “I believe Grow Your Own Leaders represents the ‘best in class’ on the topic of succession management, and will no doubt become a new management classic. Bravo!” Stephen R. Miller Corporate Training Manager The Sherwin-Williams Company “Grow Your Own Leaders is a delightful gem! In an hour, I had read enough to know that this is the most practical and comprehensive approach to leadership development out there. It incorporates what I already know to be best practices, but now they’re connected into a whole picture I can explain and use.” Deborah M. Morris Business Performance Consultant Nortel Networks “Many books have been written on great leaders and leadership qualities, but Grow Your Own Leaders offers actionable advice on identifying and developing leaders within your organization. At Vanguard, we employ the practices and programs detailed in this book to cultivate high potential talent for the good of our company and clients.” Stephen J. Marshall Principal Corporate Division The Vanguard Group
