Leadership in Action: Hatching a Plan: Developing Leadership Talent in Emerging Markets

ISSUES TO MULL

Some issues to anticipate when developing leadership in emerging markets include the need to hire on the basis of language capability rather than managerial and functional competency; the challenge of keeping people in their jobs long enough to learn from their actions; the importance of setting career-track expectations; the desirability of repayment agreements for advanced degree programs; the need to address mismatches between mentors and mentees and coaches and coachees; the importance of providing accurate and continuous feedback on total performance; and the need to be aware that ambitious local talent will be easily lured to opportunities offered by fast-growing homegrown rivals.

Interviews that we conducted with learning ...