Linkage Inc's Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER FOUR

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY

This chapter outlines key elements for aligning leadership development with the broader organization and offers approaches for leveraging leadership development to create and communicate the organization’s strategy and improve competitiveness.

For more on the case studies presented in this chapter see R. M. Fulmer and J. A. Conger, Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage (New York: AMACOM, 2004).

Perhaps the most critical change facing senior executives in global organizations is preparing a new generation ...