Leadership development.

Format:

Book

Series:

Strategic direction ; v. 20, no. 6, 2004.

Strategic direction ; v. 20, no. 6, 2004

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Bradford, England] : Emerald Group Pub., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

they are born; and so we arrive at the key strategic importance of leadership development. In his tenure at the helm of the world's most successful conglomerate - General Electric - Jack Welch transformed the organization's approach to leadership training. His legacy is a gigantic 1 billion annual spend on training and development. Other organizations such as Colgate-Palmolive also invest heavily in this area - the company currently runs over 70 individual leadership programs aimed at supporting individual development. Clearly, the task of shaping world-beating leaders is a very serious busin

Contents:

Table of contents; Editorial; Viewpoint; The challenges of leadership; 3M and General Physics make leadership count; Chicken and egg puzzle of investment in learning; Colgate-Palmolive seeks tomorrow's global leader; Leadership development's softer side; Developing change and leadership capabilities; Lesson for teachers in selling Scotland; Who's next in line?; The ''where'' not ''how'' of leadership; What's on the Web; Abstracts; Suggested reading; Diary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-51552-X

9786610515523

1-84544-413-2

OCLC:

70736668