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

This book will help every organization use succession management as a source of strategic advantage. It presents the results of a benchmarking study (conducted by the authors for the American Productivity and Quality Center) of six global companies that have created strong, self-perpetuating succession systems: Dow Chemical, Dell Computer, Bank of America, Eli Lilly and Company, PanCanadian Petroleum, and Sonoco Products Company. In examining the best practices of these companies, as well as sixteen others, Growing Your Company's Leaders also provides a detailed blueprint for designing an effective succession system at any organization.