The Leadership Machine: Architecture to Develop Leaders for Any Future, 3rd Edition

by Michael M. Lombardo, Robert W. Eichinger

The Leadership Machine was designed to help you and your organization produce successive waves of take-your-breath-away managers and leaders—and give you and your organization a competitive edge. Mike Lombardo and Bob Eichinger wrote The Leadership Machine after countless requests from people who heard their presentations on leadership development. The Leadership Machine is an easy-to-read handbook that's useful at every stage of individual, supervisory, management, and executive development. The book provides what you need to know to develop yourself and others; describes the best practices in succession planning, 360o feedback, development systems, and assignment management; and reviews the research of successful and unsuccessful applications.

Genres: Leadership, Business, Professional Development, Nonfiction

404 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2000

Reviews

[Nienke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must read for anyone interested in talent development, whether in HR or a people management role. Practical as well as theoretical!

[Robert Bogue]

There’s an old I Love Lucy episode where Lucy and Edith are workers at a chocolate factory, and they can’t keep up, so they start eating the chocolates and stuffing them in their clothes. Laverne and Shirley are standing in front of an assembly line in the opening starting with a slow pace and ending with a rather overwhelming pace. The idea of an assembly line is neither foreign to me personally nor, I think, to most people. However, most people don’t think of talent development or leadership development as an assembly line. However, this is the perspective of The Leadership Machine.

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[Gary Patton · Rating 4 out of 5]

In "The Leadership Machine", a 2001 book by Michael Lombardo and Robert Eichinger, the authors discuss a leadership competency framework that includes sixty-seven competencies. Yes, you read me right ...67.

That’s a lot of competencies for us to master! Based on extensive research, the list covers what many would agree is the universe of leadership competencies.

It's a well-researched, helpful book covering a key development and recruiting issue in the human resource, leadership and personal development areas.

If you'd like a copy of my short article explaining the core (10) competencies based on my 30+ years of management and management consulting experience, please ask.

Enjoy, grow and develop followers,

GaryFPatton
(2013-07-05 gfp '42™)

[PeterBlackCoach · Rating 5 out of 5]

10th edition of a classic tome on leadership by the two guys of Lominger - and it is for individuals as well as organisations. Read in conhunction with FYI and Becoming an Agile Leader, one has a powerful toolkit.

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[Eric Bryant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Shows how to help develop others (as well as developing yourself).

[Jeraldine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book and every single chapter of it is worth gold for anyone who seeks to develop themselves or others, or create development systems and programs.

[Kent Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A book about using competency development at work. There are a lot of things that made sense in the book. I did skip thru parts pretty quickly that didn't seem to apply much