Chapter 9Management and Leadership Development

Having managers at all levels that understand, embrace, and effectively execute their roles is a key to long-term sustainable success. This is, in fact, the overall purpose of management/leadership development. Highly successful companies (including well-known organizations such as GE, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Starbucks, Amgen, Guggenheim Partners, Princess Cruises, PIMCO, and Navistar; and lesser known organizations such as Kusto Holdings with operations in Kazakhstan, Russia, the Ukraine, and Vietnam, Techmer PM and Bell Carter Foods in the United States, and Xu Zhou Construction Machinery Group in China) all recognize the critical importance of investing in enhancing the skills of current and ...

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