Building Leaders

JAY A. CONGER is the director of the University of SouthernCalifornia's Leadership Institute and the author of Learning toLead. Named Business Week's Best Professor to Teach Leadership toExecutives, he has served on the faculties of the Harvard BusinessSchool, McGill University, and INSEAD, and is an internationallyrecognized leadership expert. BETH BENJAMIN,Ph.D., is a leadershipconsultant for Booz?Allen & Hamilton and has conductedextensive research with the University of Southern California'sLeadership Institute and RAND Corporation.

• Preface. The Authors. The New Imperative: Building Effective Leaders Throughout theCompany. OUT OF THE CLASSROOM, INTO THE TRENCHES: EVALUATING APPROACHES TOCORPORATE LEADRERSHIP DEVELOPMENT. Developing the Individual Leader. How National Australia Bank Develops Leaders. Socializing Company Vision and Values. How Federal Express and PepsiCo Socialize Vision and Values. Strategic Leadership Initiatives. Ernst Young's Leadership 2000 Strategic LeadershipInitiative. THE FUTURE IS NOW: BUILDING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LEADERS. Action Learning: The New Paradigm for Leadership Development. What Matters: Competencies for the New Century. References. Index.

"A must read for all executives and managers, emerging, ascAnding,arriving, and all points beyond! Building Leaders is the singlebest source I know for original ideas on how to develop and retainexemplary leaders."--Warren Bennis, professor, Marshall School ofBusiness, University of Southern California, and co-author ofCo-Leaders "Highly readable and useful, this is THE book for guidingleadership development decisions within organizationstoday."--Patrick Canavan, senior vice president and director,Global Leadership and Organizational Development, Motorola "Jay Conger and Beth Benjamin bring clarity and insight to thevast, almost boundless, domain of leadership development. BuildingLeaders helps you both to assess the impact of current approachesand to powerfully build a strategy that will develop leadershiptalent at all levels of your organization."--Mike Morrison, dean,Toyota University