Book description
In this important book, successful organizations-including well-known
companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett
Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and
Praxair-share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific
methods for leadership development and organizational change. These
exemplary organizations serve as models for leadership development and
organizational change because they
- Commit to organizational objectives and culture
- Transform behaviors, cultures, and perceptions
- Implement competency or organization effectiveness models
- Exhibit strong top management leadership support and passion
Louis Carter
is the founder and CEO of the Best Practices Institute, which provides
services in the design, development, management of best practice
programs, research, and publications in leadership and organization
development. He is the coeditor or editor of
Linkage Inc.'s Best
Practices in Leadership Development Handbook
from Pfeiffer and author of
The Change Champion's Fieldguide.
David Ulrich is a professor at University of Michigan Business
School. He has been ranked by Business Week as the number one
management educator and has been listed in Forbes as one of the
"world's top five" business coaches. He is the author of
numerous articles and book chapters and of Organizational
Capability from Jossey-Bass, and he is the coauthor of Why the
Bottom Line ISN'T! from Wiley.
Marshall Goldsmith is a founding director of The Alliance for
Strategic Leadership, a consulting organization that includes over 100
top professionals in the field of leadership development. He is the
author or editor of fourteen books including Coaching for
Leadership and Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Leadership
Development Handbook from Pfeiffer and The Leader of the
Future from Jossey-Bass.
