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The Leadership Machine: Architecture to Develop Leaders for Any Future

The Leadership Machine: Architecture to Develop Leaders for Any Future


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Power your own leadership machine

The Leadership Machine is an easy-to-read resource useful at every stage of professional development, providing a foundational approach to competency-based leadership development and talent management.

  • Aligning candidates to competencies during selection
  • Identifying the secret to success ─ continuous learning
  • Cultivating high-potential employees for succession
  • Developing learning-agile leaders to tackle an uncertain future

The Leadership Machine is for:

  • Human resource practitioners and leaders
  • Business leaders who want to align their talent with their business strategy
  • Individuals interested in enhancing their career

What's new?

This 10th Anniversary edition showcases the original bedrock principles in an updated, more easy to read way, helping readers better manage their people and themselves in today’s constantly changing marketplace.

New research findings:

  • Updates to reflect most current research and normative data
  • Fresh research on learning agility
  • New findings on the ROI of talent management

Easy-to-use reference tool:

  • Re-titled and reorganized chapters
  • New comprehensive index
  • Exercises, figures, and tables labeled for easy reference
  • Quiz to test your knowledge of The Leadership Machine

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Read a sample chapter of The Leadership Machine: Architecture to Develop Leaders for Any Future.