Insights
Short essays, research commentary, and practical tools for executives, HR leaders, and the managers and directors they are developing.
Organizations often invest in frontline managers and senior executives while overlooking the leaders in between. The result is a gap between the responsibility directors are given and the leadership capacity they have been developed to carry.
Read insight →Research from Gallup, DDI, and Deloitte shows why manager capability, succession readiness, and coherent leadership development matter.
Read insight →Why organizations can invest steadily in development and still be short of leaders ready for the next level of responsibility.
The habits that make an excellent manager are the same habits that limit a director. What has to change, and in what order.
A practical definition of readiness that organizations can use before the promotion, not after.
Shared expectations, clear progression, and consistent development — the three components most leadership programs are missing.
New writing is published here regularly. Articles, research commentary, and downloadable leadership tools will appear in this section.
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