18.1. Leadership Challenges and the Place of Networking
First, we must share the bias in our approach to leadership development: we think in terms of challenges, not competencies. Instead of helping new leaders develop specific competencies, which may or may not lead to desired business outcomes, we design programs that make it easier for key talent to address the most pressing challenges facing them and the organization as a whole. As a result, we begin by working with clients to articulate those challenges, and we find that many of them lead us to networks. For senior leaders and high-potentials, several themes emerge:[]
Complexity. This challenge comes up so often that it is a cliché. We continually hear that leaders must be comfortable operating ...
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