Chapter 6. Defining the Executive of the Future
“If you don’t know what you’re looking for, you’ll never know when you find it.”
This old saying certainly holds true for an Acceleration Pool system. If an organization doesn’t have a well-defined profile of what it wants in its future senior leaders, there’s no way it will be able to effectively develop people for senior management positions. Nor will it be able to accurately evaluate the readiness of high-potential individuals. It is extremely important, then, for an organization to carefully and accurately define the characteristics of the leaders who will carry it into the future.
At most organizations the challenges facing leaders have changed dramatically beginning with the last part of the ...
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