Book description
Today's large business organizations in India have a voracious need for
effective managers and talented leaders; but demand far exceeds supply.
This timely and practical book offers thoroughly-researched pointers on
how Indian managers can become high-performing business leaders.
The leadership development curriculum proposed in these pages is
based on extracting lessons from on-the-job experience. Given that the
workplace is the medium through which the essentials of leadership are
learned, executives and managers at all levels need to know which
experiences matter, what are the foremost lessons learned, and how
learning occurs. Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today offers a
complete template for effective leadership, including:
- The seven experiences vital for developing leadership ability
- The 11 lessons in leadership essential for managerial effectiveness
- Over 50 stories and 100 wise quotations from today's senior
executives that portray how leadership acumen sharpens over time
- Reflective exercises, self-assessments, and guidelines for self-improvement
The underlying research was conducted in cooperation with the Tata
Management Training Center in Pune, India, and captures the
experiences and leadership lessons learned by over 100 senior Indian
business leaders. As such, it offers readers both a compass and a map
for traversing the terrain of leadership development.
In these pages, early and mid-career managers will find a roadmap for
steering their careers towards the higher echelons of executive
leadership. Senior executives, at the top of their game, will find a
systematic and proactive approach to cultivating the leadership talent
that their organizations will require in the future. Global executives
operating in India will find out how leadership and management are
practiced in India.
Meena Wilson is on the faculty of the Center for
Creative Leadership (CCL), and is currently based in India. She is
engaged in leadership research; program design and evaluation;
feedback; and coaching.
Meena was responsible for launching the
Center's Asia Pacific office in Singapore in 2003 and for starting up
a Research, Innovation, and Product Development-APAC unit in 2006. Her
research focuses on how leadership is learned from experience,
cross-cultural competence, and intercultural value differences. Her
credits include several book chapters and lead authorship of
International Success: Selecting, Developing, and Supporting
Expatriate Managers (1998) and Managing across Cultures: A
Learning Framework (1996).
Meena completed her
undergraduate studies at Mills College in Oakland, CA, holds a M. S.
degree in television-radio journalism from Syracuse University, and a
Ph. D. in adult and organizational development from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
About the Center for Creative Leadership
Ranked among the
world's top providers of executive education by Bloomberg
BusinessWeek and the Financial Times, the Center for
Creative Leadership (CCL) develops better leaders through its
exclusive focus on leadership development and research, and is
headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, with locations in
Colorado Springs, Colorado; San Diego, California; Brussels, Belgium;
Moscow, Russia; Singapore; Pune, India; and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
