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

by Robert M. Fulmer, Jay A. Conger

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 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.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 2, 2004

About the author

Bob Fulmer is author or co-author of over 150 published articles and almost 40 business books, monographs and editions. As an academic, he has held endowed chairs at Trinity, William & Mary, and Pepperdine, taught management and leadership at Columbia and Emory Universities and was a Visiting Scholar at MIT. He was responsible for worldwide management development at Allied-Signal, was president of two consulting firms and has conducted seminars in 25 countries on five continents. "

Reviews

[Jeff Lampson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've pulled this off the shelf again as I am consulting on a succession management program redesign. This is my favorite in the way it links the value of succession and development.