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What is the true value creator and competitive advantage for your company? Spotting and deploying talent. Especially in this continuously transforming economy, it is what sets one company ahead of another. This is true for born-digital companies that have become extraordinarily large and continue to expand, and for traditional companies that are waking up to the need to transform.
This book shows high-potential leaders—those who could someday lead a large organization—how to create their own paths and build the essential skills needed to live up to their great promise. At the same time, this book explains to top management, chief human resources officers, and other leadership developers how to identify their high-potential leaders and facilitate their development ahead of competition.
Dedicated to the hearts and souls of the joint family of twelve siblings and cousins living under one roof for fifty years, whose personal sacrifices made my formal education possible.