Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 658.40724 EAN: 9780875843360 ISBN: 0875843360 Label: Harvard Business School Press Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 254 Publication Date: January 15, 1998 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Sales Rank: 413914 Studio: Harvard Business School Press
Product DescriptionHow do you develop the people who will one day lead your company? 'High Flyers' challenges conventional wisdom about how to groom executives for the top positions in the firm by presenting a strategic framework for identifying and developing future executives that senior managers can use to identify and develop future executives. McCall demonstrates that the best executives aren't necessarily managers who possess a previously identified, generic list of traits or who have risen to the top through survival of the fittest. Rather, the real leaders of the future are those who have the ability to learn from their experiences and remain open to continuous learning. If these people get the right experiences on the job, they will have the ultimate opportunity to learn new executive skills. Full of vivid real-life examples, 'High Flyers' is for everyone in the organization who has responsibility for developing people - as well as for aspiring managers who want to learn what it takes to become truly effective leaders. For companies, 'High Flyers' demonstrates the power of executive development as a competitive advantage and the way to ensure the best leadership for the future.
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Rating: - Packed with sensible and thought-provoking advice
Don't hold your breath if you're waiting for your company to hand out a blueprint for your professional growth as an emerging executive. In a book packed with sensible and thought-provoking advice, Morgan W. McCall Jr.'s overriding message is that aspiring executives are responsible for their own development. He believes that few organizations are structured to promote the proper training of young, promising executives, although they should do a better job. He says rising leaders should create their ... Read More
Rating: - An important Contrubtion
As an avid read of "leadership development" books, I found High Flyers very stimulating and thought-provoking. While I believe that talent is more than "the ability to learn", I do believe leaders who have this quality are best able to leverage their God-given talents and gifts whatever they are. The most important contribution of this for me was the emphasis on the power of experience and the ability to learn from it. With so much emphasis of leadership development being about acquring knowledge ... Read More
Rating: - More about executives than leaders...
The author is a professor of management at USC, so his perspectives on leadership are limited to those qualities found in executives and in very large businesses that support the training of executives. The most helpful aspect of his book is that McCall urges large companies to develop systematic training for executive leaders, rather than leaving younger executives in a sink-or-swim situation. He also has a bias against ruthless, cut-throat competition and male testosterone-driven demonstrations of ... Read More
Rating: - Decent book, especially if you are new to the field
This is a pretty good book for those new to the leadership literature. Its main point is that leaders are made, not born. I found it a little long for the point it was making, but thats probably because I've read other books in the area.
Rating: - A Process for Strategy-Driven Leadership Development
You will find a thoughtful, thorough process here for using a company's strategy to delineate what kind of leaders you will need, identify the leadership experiences that can create that type of leader, then to locate those who have the highest potential to develop those capabilities (those who learn rapidly and well), and to monitor progress. This is a very humane book that will help many avoid the painful career derailments that we read about all too often when a top performer suddenly crashes and burns ... Read More
- An important Contrubtion
- More about executives than leaders...
