There is a leadership crisis in corporate America, and this crisis will worsen in the next decade. An aging population and limited corporate investment in leaders’ development means that competition for the shrinking leadership talent pool will hit unprecedented levels. The winners in this battle for leadership talent will be those companies that build practices and create environments that attract and engage the best leaders; losers will rapidly decline. Leadership, in light of expected talent shortages, heightened business competition, and emerging scandals and ethical shortcomings, is the single biggest challenge in business today. Leading the Way presents more than a collection of “best practices”–it highlights the approaches of consistently profitable companies and provides practical tools, ideas, and examples for all companies to use in developing strong leadership systems. Based on Hewitt Associates landmark research of 348 human resources executives and CEOs representing 240 major public and private U.S. companies, Leading the Way distills the leadership practices of the best, high-performing companies.
Book Details:
- Author: Robert Gandossy
- ISBN: 9780470322130
- Year Published: 2004
- Pages: 220
- BISAC: BUS071000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Leadership
About the Book and Topic:
There is a leadership crisis in corporate America, and this crisis will worsen in the next decade. An aging population and limited corporate investment in leaders’ development means that competition for the shrinking leadership talent pool will hit unprecedented levels. The winners in this battle for leadership talent will be those companies that build practices and create environments that attract and engage the best leaders; losers will rapidly decline. Leadership, in light of expected talent shortages, heightened business competition, and emerging scandals and ethical shortcomings, is the single biggest challenge in business today. Leading the Way presents more than a collection of “best practices”–it highlights the approaches of consistently profitable companies and provides practical tools, ideas, and examples for all companies to use in developing strong leadership systems. Based on Hewitt Associates landmark research of 348 human resources executives and CEOs representing 240 major public and private U.S. companies, Leading the Way distills the leadership practices of the best, high-performing companies.
AUTHOR AND FIRM PLATFORM: Hewitt Associates is the world’s largest HR consulting firm with offices around the world. The authors and their firm will market and promote the book through the following activities: Direct mail to appropriate selections from our client database that includes human resource professionals and other business executives at major global organizations (35,000) An article in Hewitt Magazine which is distributed to over 35,000 HR and business leaders around the world Distribution of books to key clients and prospects Notification/advertisement on Hewitt.com with link to Amazon.com. Hewitt.com has approximately 90,000 hits per month A press release announcing the book’s publication A client and prospect teleconference on the theme of “Leadership”-300 callers A media tour to key markets with Hewitt offices Hosting market briefings in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America
About the Author
Marc Effron is the Global Leader for Hewitt Associates’ (http://was.hewitt.com/hewitt/) Leadership Consulting group. Marc guides Hewitt’s research efforts on leadership. He has spoken to audiences throughout North America about how they can build great companies for leaders and is widely quoted about leadership topics including recent articles in The New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, European Wall Street Journal, HR Executive, Financial Times, and others. Robert Gandossy is Global Leader for Hewitt Associates’ Talent and Organization Consulting. He is a member of Hewitt’s Global Council. Bob has been a speaker for a number of groups including Harvard Business School, Human Resources Planning Society, The Wharton School, Tom Peters Group, Yale Law School, Yale’s School of Organization and Management, World At Work, American Management Association, and The Conference Board.