The guide that defines the results required at each organizational level to sustain business success It's not enough to build a company full of people with leadership skills. The Performance Pipeline digs deep into the real work of executing business results at each leadership layer. <ul>
<li>Filled with lessons and examples from the author's 40 years of experience</li> <li>Shows how to set performance standards, make sure the right work is being done, and remove performance barriers</li> <li>Illustrates how leaders can make the transition to the next level and achieve full performance</li> </ul>
This book gives leaders in any industry an advantage over the competition.

The Performance Pipeline: Getting the Right Performance At Every Level of Leadership

Business & Money

Drotter, Stephen

Management & Leadership

Jossey-Bass

An updated and revised version of the bestselling The Leadership Pipeline – the critical resource for how companies can grow leaders from the inside. 
 In business, leadership at every level is a requisite for company survival. Yet the leadership pipeline –the internal strategy to grow leaders – in many companies is dry or nonexistent. Drawing on their experiences at many Fortune 500 companies, the authors show how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results.
New to this edition is 65 pages of new material to update the model, share new stories and add new advice based on the ten more years of experience. The authors have also added a "Frequently Asked Questions" section to the end of each chapter. Q&amp;A with Co-Author Steve Drotter What is the single thing that has changed the most in leadership since The Leadership Pipeline was first publish in 2000? Since communication is such a central requirement for leaders, the changes in electronic communication have to be at the top of the list of impactful changes. Hand-held devices, social media and speed of access combine to bombard every employee--leader or individual contributors alike--with messaging. What is good about that is very good--instant availability of people and information. What is bad about that is very bad--everything is "urgent" and everyone is distracted. Leaders have lost control of the agenda in meetings, in offices and in peoples’ minds. A critical task for all leaders is to provide clarity of purpose and focus on the right outcomes. This has never been so important! There are a lot of books on leadership, what sets The Leadership Pipeline apart? The The Leadership Pipeline isn't theory. It is based on structured observation through over 1200 in depth executive assessments of very successful people--contenders for CEO, CFO, Group Executive and Business General Manager. The Leadership Pipeline isn't about fads or the latest new thing. It based first on principles developed over 30 years. The Leadership Pipeline isn't based on one industry or one culture. Work in 100 companies spread through 40 countries provided the base data. It provides real differentiation between the layers of leadership so the company or business has a way to keep leaders from working on the wrong level and failing to produce all the required leadership results. What is a common misconception about what a leader should or should not be working on? There are two common misconceptions about what leaders should or shouldn't do. The first comes from the time horizon and the second comes from the uniqueness required of each layer. The higher up a leadership position sits, the further out into the future the leader should focus. This time horizon difference starts very early in the leadership chain. An individual contributor should focus on the task at hand and its deadlines. Her boss, the first line manager, should focus on annual plans. Her boss, the manager of managers should focus on a two year time horizon. The time horizon extends for each layer above. Each layer has a unique purpose that defines the contribution needed. Individual contributors deliver the product or service. Their boss, the first line manager, enables delivery by defining requirements, training, coaching, giving feedback, and rewarding. Their boss, the manager of managers, drives productivity by making sure the first line manager actually manages. The next layer up, function managers, deliver competitive advantage. The next layer, business managers, deliver short and long term profit. Does this approach work for all companies, all sizes? We have seen these concepts work with companies as small as 20 people and with global giants with several hundred thousand employees in 100 countries. The principles are exactly the same. Each layer has a unique purpose, each layer works in a different time horizon, and each layer must be differentiated from the layer below. The leaders must provide clarity and focus no matter what the size of the company because the communication revolution affects and distracts everyone. What are the central issues leaders must face in the next five to ten years? The global financial crisis has resulted in pervasive uncertainty about markets, capital availability, solvency of customers and suppliers, investment strategies, etc. Competition will be fierce from developing countries. Leaders at every level will have to focus more sharply on performance than ever before. Waste, false steps, tolerance for mediocre performance or performers, bad investment decisions, out dated processes, lack of empowerment, and the like will lead more quickly to business failure. Leaders will have to provide real clarity of desired outcomes for every employee, differentiated by layer, and enable focus on obtaining those outcomes by everyone in order for their business to survive.

The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company

Charan, Ram

Noël, James

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

It's not enough to build a company full of people with leadership skills. 
The Performance Pipeline digs deep into the real work of executing business results at each leadership layer. It is filled with lessons and examples from the author's forty years of experience, and shows how to set performance standards, make sure the right work is being done, and remove performance barriers. It also illustrates how leaders can make the transition to the next level and achieve full performance. Filled with illustrative examples and personal experiences, the audiobook shows how Performance Pipelines work in real-world organizations. Get an advantage over the competition!

The Performance Pipeline Lib/E: Getting the Right Performance at Every Level of Leadership

Blackstone Publishing

Set up your company for long-term success by building and reinforcing your leadership pipeline 
In the newly revised third edition of The Leadership Pipeline, a team of veteran leadership practitioners delivers a practical and essential framework for identifying future leaders, assessing their competence, planning their development, nurturing their talents, and analyzing the results of your efforts. The work to be done, the required skills, time application, and the necessary work values for each leadership layer are clearly defined for the digital age. The book explains how to integrate your organization’s leadership development process with a succession plan that provides your company with a ready supply of capable leaders. 
You’ll discover the tools and techniques you need to knit together your succession and leadership development programs and constantly renew your leadership pipeline. You’ll also: Explore anecdotes and stories drawn from the authors’ extensive experience with top companies that illustrate the principles discussed in the book Find ways to eliminate bias and tunnel vision when identifying leadership candidates Learn to objectively consider the efficacy of individual leadership candidates 
A powerful resource for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders at firms of all sizes, The Leadership Pipeline is an effective and insightful blueprint to future-proofing your company.

The Leadership Pipeline: Developing Leaders in the Digital Age

Noel, James L.

Jonasen, Kent

wiley

Strong leaders at all levels within an organization are a requisite for business success. Yet the leadership pipeline-the internal architecture for growing leaders-is often broken or non-existent. This updated edition of the bestselling The Leadership Pipeline has been revised to help address the challenges of today's business environment. Anchored in experience, it offers a tested model for planning leadership succession and development that has proven to get results.The authors draw on their work at more than one hundred international companies to report on what has been learned in the ten years since the first edition of The Leadership Pipeline was published. They show how a company can develop leadership in each layer of their organization by defining the different skills required as leaders move from one level to the next. They explain how time should be applied differently, how work values required for success must change, and clearly illustrate what inappropriate leadership looks like at each step. In addition, the authors answer commonly asked questions and add new insights from their in-the-field research.

Gildan Media

Small businesses have a huge challenge to perpetuate themselves. Based on 80 years of experience this book guides them in preparing for their likely future. It explains how to: -plan for succession at all levels, -strengthen the organization structure for business growth, -improve leadership performance, -build the right leadership team, -select and develop the best people for every position. Guiding principles with examples based on real life experience make this advice clear and easy to apply for leaders of small businesses. About the AuthorsStephen Drotter is Chairman of the Leadership Pipeline Institute, which is dedicated to advancing the knowledge of and practices for developing leaders for current and future positions at all levels of an organization. For almost 50 years, Drotter has been working with succession and leadership development as an internal leader of the work and as an executive consultant with businesses, big and small, around the world. He started Drotter Human Resources in 1985 and focused on succession, organization, executive assessment, and leadership development to share what he had learned. He has served over 100 companies on five continents in 37 countries. He is the author of The Performance Pipeline and co-author of international best seller The Leadership Pipeline, The Leadership Pipeline Revised and Updated, The Succession Pipeline, and The Succession Planning Handbook for the Chief Executive.Drotter has a degree in Economics from Amherst College and is a graduate of GE's Human Resource Management Program. John B. Prescott AC is an Australian business executive with wide international experience. His initial career was in human resources/ industrial relations but transitioned to business leadership when he became head of BHP Transport, then BHP Steel, and later MD and CEO of the parent company. Prescott was chairman of the Australian Manufacturing Council, and the Victorian Government's Workcover Authority's Best Practice Health and Safety Program for industry. He was Deputy Chairman of the Business Council of Australia, and an advisor to the Australian Government on defense, as well as a member of that Government's Remuneration Tribunal. He held several international positions, where he made major contributions at senior management and board level to strategy, policy, human resource selection and development safety.Mr. Prescott holds a degree in Commerce (Industrial Relations) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). His awards include a Companion in the Order of Australia (AC), an Australian Centenary Medal, an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Monash University, and an Honorary Doctor of Science from UNSW. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Management.

Pipeline to the Future: Succession and Performance Planning for Small Business

Dorrance Publishing Co.

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The Performance Pipeline: Getting the Right Performance At Every Level of Leadership

The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company

The Performance Pipeline Lib/E: Getting the Right Performance at Every Level of Leadership

The Leadership Pipeline: Developing Leaders in the Digital Age

The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company

Pipeline to the Future: Succession and Performance Planning for Small Business