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Leaders Ready Now: Accelerating Growth in a Faster World Hardcover – June 21, 2016

by Matthew J. Paese (Author), Audrey B. Smith Ph.D. (Author), William C. Byham Ph.D. (Author)

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Better leaders, ready now. It's what successful businesses need to stay viable and what most are unable to achieve. The problem is not the absence of tools, technology, or processes. The problem is a lack of energy.

Growing leaders at the speed of business should be exhilarating, and even scary at times. Some organizations have figured this out, and are showing how more aggressive approaches rally business performance. It doesn't take slick new technology or a clever tool. It takes boldness.

Leaders Ready Now challenges CEOs and Talent Management leaders to rethink lackluster approaches to accelerating leadership growth and to change the equation so that tools and processes don't rob energy from the organization but, instead, create it. The authors take a fundamentally different angle and clearly illustrate how to transform your existing succession and development systems and grow the leaders your business needs fast and fully enough to gain the advantage in a complex world.

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Matthew J. Paese, Ph.D., is Vice President of Succession and C-Suite Services for Development Dimensions International (DDI). Matt's work has centered on the application of succession, assessment, and development approaches as they apply to boards, CEOs, senior management teams, and leaders across the pipeline. He consults, coaches, speaks, and conducts research around all those topics and more.

Audrey B. Smith, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President for Global Talent Diagnostics at DDI. Audrey's customer-driven innovation and global consulting insights have helped shape DDI s succession, selection, and development offerings, from the C-suite to the front line. She has been a key strategist and solution architect, encompassing technology-enabled virtual assessments and development aligned to current business challenges.

William C. Byham, Ph.D., is Executive Chairman of DDI. He cofounded the company in 1970 and has worked with hundreds of the world's largest organizations on executive assessment, executive development, and succession management. Bill authored Zapp!® The Lightning of Empowerment, a groundbreaking book that has sold more than 3 million copies. He has coauthored 23 other books, including seminal works on the assessment center method.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ DDI Press (June 21, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0976151472
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0976151470
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.65 pounds

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William C. Byham, Ph.D., is Executive Chairman of DDI. He cofounded the company in 1970 and has worked with hundreds of the world’s largest organizations on executive assessment, executive development, and succession management. Bill authored Zapp!® The Lightning of Empowerment, a groundbreaking book that has sold more than 3 million copies. He has coauthored 23 other books, including seminal works on the assessment center method.
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Matthew J. Paese, Ph.D., is Vice President of Succession and C-Suite Services for Development Dimensions International (DDI). Matt’s work has centered on the application of succession, assessment, and development approaches as they apply to boards, CEOs, senior management teams, and leaders across the pipeline. He consults, coaches, speaks, and conducts research around all those topics and more.
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Audrey B. Smith, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President for Global Talent Diagnostics at DDI. Audrey’s customer-driven innovation and global consulting insights have helped shape DDI’s succession, selection, and development offerings, from the C-suite to the front line. She has been a key strategist and solution architect, encompassing technology-enabled virtual assessments and development aligned to current business challenges.
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Daniel C. McWhorter

The first step is committing to make acceleration happen!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2016

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More than just another book on leadership development, "Leaders Ready Now" is a practical, step-by-step guide to accelerating growth at every leadership level in virtually any organization. The authors have taken decades of research and proven client results and distilled them down to a six-step acceleration framework that clearly defines the difference between good and great. The beauty of this well-articulated framework is you don't have to be great at everything, just focus on the one or two areas that are going to have the biggest impact for your organization and you are sure to see results. I recommend this book for senior executives, HR and talent leaders and anyone who is looking to help their organization's leaders achieve their fullest potential. Disclaimer: I was a beta reader and received a free copy of this book from the authors. My only affiliation with the authors or Development Dimensions International (DDI) is as a client.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 22, 2016

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Are you taking responsibility for your team's leadership development or leaving it to some off the shelf product or leaving it to someone else to do for you? I would suggest to you to take responsibility yourself and get the thrill and inspiration of this important leadership responsibility. Leaders Ready Now will prepare you for this journey with your team. We all know that leaders grow leaders. This why we must make it our personal charge to develop, grow, and improve our leadership pipelines. As Matthew Paese, Audrey Smith, and William Byham stated in this great book, "Everything you need to accelerate the growth of leadership is already inside your organization (2016, p. v). I am such a believer in this statement. I always say that context matters – and it does. This is why I believe organization’s and top leaders need to make this work their personal responsibilities.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 16, 2016

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This is an awesome read. Very practical and definitely worth the buy. This book is written for human resource and talent development professionals who need real-world best practices, processes and tools that show how leadership development approaches work. It includes illustrative case studies of leadership development approaches.

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Enrique Maldonado

The best book on succesion planning

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 27, 2016

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The best book on succesion planning! Nothing comes near. Very forward thinking and practical. Based on years of succesful & meaningful experience from a trustworthy source. Highly recommendable!

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Lisa K.

Do you develop leaders? This book is for you!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 22, 2016

Effective leadership can be very elusive. True leaders are few and far in between. The world is rapidly changing and not enough organizations can keep up. Even more daunting is the lack of leaders ready to take the helm of departments and companies. In order to react quickly to change and remain viable, companies need to focus on growing leaders internally to lead the organization externally.

Management can’t rely solely on tools, technology, training programs, and set processes to groom leaders. More emphasis needs to be placed on rethinking existing tools so that people aren’t thrown into training programs then into a position they may not be ready for. There needs to be some energy behind approaches to readying leaders. Moreover, organizations have the responsibility to keep the energy and momentum moving. Existing leaders should make succession planning a priority with the goal of acting more quickly and with precision to grow leaders that can easily swing into positions to address the business needs and challenges.

Leaders Ready Now Accelerating Growth in a Faster World by Matthew J. Paese, Audrey B. Smith, and William C. Byham is a very effective tool for CEO’s and talent teams to include in an overall assessment and plan to not only ready leaders, but accelerate the leadership growth of key individuals.

Leaders Ready Now is geared more towards the executive suite and top talent management folks. There are nuggets that small business owners can glean particularly as an organization grows. This book is packed very full of detailed tools, strategies, graphs, and program examples. The appendix is rich with additional tools and suggestions for growing leaders more quickly so that they can transition into leadership positions with barely a ripple. With so many details and rich content, this book is really more of a text book for leadership and will require patient reading to note all of the gems buried in each chapter.

The authors provide valuable details about talent reviews, assessments and the need for growth learning and challenges. Business needs to not just provide leadership development but clear learning assignments supported by coaching and mentoring. Training and throwing people into leadership positions will only weaken the organization over time. We just can’t afford to manage leadership development like so many companies have for years. We need new approaches, more coaching and mentoring while a leader is learning. Success will demand an emphasis and commitment to accelerated growth in bringing on leaders ready to make a difference.

Leaders Ready Now offers 6 “Acceleration Imperatives” supported by key systems associated with each one peppered throughout 12 chapters. Each has an important role in assisting an organization in identifying, developing, and energizing future leaders for the long term. The principles are:

1. Commit: Adopt (leadership) acceleration as a business priority.
2. Aim: Define leadership success for your business context.
3. Identify: Make efficient, accurate decisions about whom to accelerate.
4. Assess: Accurately evaluate readiness gaps and give great feedback.
5. Grow: make the right development happen.
6. Sustain: Aggressively manufacture the energy for growth.

Each of these imperatives is detailed throughout the book. Concrete and detailed information, strategies, plans, and examples are shared to enable senior leadership to move forward in developing leaders that are not only ready to lead, but energized. My favorite aspect of Leaders Ready Now is the authors focus on not only energizing leadership but maintaining the energy long term. The key to growing great leaders is indeed energy. Lacking this, all the tools, processes, and plans will fall by the wayside and an organization will drift back into the “old” methods of preparing leaders to bring companies into the future to compete and grow.

If you have a hand in selecting, growing, and mentoring leaders in your business you will gain insight and an increased appetite for accelerating the growth of upcoming leaders in your business and coaching them to be ready by reading Leaders Ready Now. Again, this book is chocked full of detailed information in a text book type format and may be a bit heavy for the small business owner. Nonetheless, this book is a wealth of knowledge and will appeal to anyone who is passionate about leadership and growing people.

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 28, 2016

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