Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage [Hardcover]

Robert M. Fulmer (Author), Jay A. Conger (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0814407676 | ISBN-13: 978-0814407677 | Publication Date: January 2, 2004

"Within the next few years, "baby boomer" leaders and managers will be retiring in huge numbers. From the executive suite on down, the challenge to put the right person in place for every job is becoming acute. The potential shortfall means organizations must put succession planning at the top of their priority lists. Growing Your Company's Leaders offers the results of a study of five global leaders in succession strategy: Dow Chemical, Dell Computer, Eli Lilly, Pan Canadian Petroleum, and Sonoco. Readers will learn what these and sixteen other high-profile organizations are doing to identify, secure, and prepare the next generation of leaders. This book examines: * the link between succession management and business strategy * the architecture of good plans and how technology can make them better * the importance of individual employee development * why senior management support is crucial * how to monitor the effectiveness of the succession management system."

Editorial Reviews

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"If you believe that people are the key to any successful enterprise, then "Growing Your Company's Leaders" is key reading." -- CIO, March 2004

"The book tackles the major issues in getting succession management right, with abundant examples from the best practice companies." -- The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto): “The book tackles the major issues in getting succession management right, with abundant examples from the best practice companies. . . The result is an easy-to-read, comprehensive picture of where your company should be on succession management."

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM (January 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814407676
• ISBN-13: 978-0814407677
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,299,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bob Fulmer is author or co-author of over 150 published articles and almost 40 business books, monographs and editions. As an academic, he has held endowed chairs at Trinity, William & Mary, and Pepperdine, taught management and leadership at Columbia and Emory Universities and was a Visiting Scholar at MIT. He was responsible for worldwide management development at Allied-Signal, was president of two consulting firms and has conducted seminars in 25 countries on five continents. Bob is currently academic director for Duke Corporate Education and a permanent resident of Santa Barbara.His most recent book is "Newcomers in Paradise."

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best practices in succession, February 8, 2007

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William H. Franklin Jr. "Bill Franklin, Ph.D." (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage (Hardcover)

Bob Fulmer was my dissertation supervisor when he was a professor at Georgia State University and I was in the doctoral program. I am a Board member for a $300 million portfolio of healthcare companies and was recently charged with succession planning. In my review of the literature, I ran across Bob's book and purchased it. It is a best practices study of the succession planning of six global companies and therefore oriented to the needs of large, if not multinational companies, rather than entrepreneurial, founder in control business, such as ours is. It is well researched and well written as I would have suspected.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A company can control its succession fate or a competitor will do it -, July 9, 2009

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Rebecca Clement "Publisher, Soundview Executi... (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Growing Your Company's Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage (Hardcover)

The two most important roles that a corporate Board of Directors (BOD) plays are its governance responsibility and CEO succession planning. However, within this passing decade it has become critically important for the succession planning process to be pushed beyond the BOD, much deeper into the organization. In "Growing Your Company's Leaders" the authors expertly address the ever-changing rules in the game of attracting top talent, stressing the need for competitive companies to have a strong handle on the succession process - or face the consequences. Soundview recommends this book because it's ultimately people who run organizations and it's up to the leaders to inspire a vision among employees. Given the dynamism of the talent market, companies need to decide their own succession fate or their competitors might do it for them.