Leaders At All Levels

Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis

By: Ram Charan

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Corporate America's leading consultant explains how top companies solve the problem of leadership succession.

A serious crisis looms in American management today. More and more CEOs are failing, and there remains an acute shortage of capable replacements. The true dilemma in leadership is the stagnant state of corporate leadership development. Because companies fail to hone their unit managers' leadership abilities, they are never able to fill their succession pipelines. With unit managers stagnating, companies have difficulty executing at every level, compounding the crisis. Now, best-selling author Ram Charan shows how top companies approach leadership development as a core competency, recognizing that an adaptable leadership pool is a competitive advantage, and focusing their attention on bringing out the best in the leaders they have.

Charan reveals exactly what's wrong with corporate leadership development and tells how to make it right. He explains the concept of a leadership "gene pool" and shows how companies can discover just what "DNA" they need to succeed. He also details how to uncover the hidden leaders in a company, when and where to bring in fresh talent, how to coach, measure, and reward leadership, and much more.

For CEOs, directors, and anyone involved in leadership development, Leaders at All Levels will be an eye-opening guide on how to get succession right.

©2007 Ram Charan (P)2008 Gildan Media Corp

Critic reviews

"He has this rare ability to distill meaningful from meaningless and transfer it to others in a quiet way without destroying confidences." (Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO, General Electric)
"Meet a wise man: Ram Charan's frenetic pace, fierce intelligence, and deep access have made him an unrivaled source of real world insights into what business does right - and all too often wrong." ( Fortune)

Ram Charan Delivers

Charan shares insight into exact methodology for preparing your company to select or recognize and then develop the leaders needed to take the company into the future.