The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company

This book is a total game-changer, and ranks as the most important non-fiction work I read for both 2022 and 2023. After reading this, I will never look at leadership development the same way again. Charan, Drotter, and Noel have identified a 6-level leadership pipeline that addresses crucial needs most leaders face in their organizations. From a personal performance perspective, what are the skills and mindsets leaders needed for each level, and how do they we prepare themselves to take on a new level. From a senior leader perspective it addresses how to nurture an organization’s leadership pipeline in order to develop and train leadership for each new level of leadership. We don’t want to have a point where we have leadership positions to fill but can’t identify people who are qualified to take the roles. We don’t want that, but it happens, which is exactly why I read this book. Jim Collins writes extensively in his books (Good to Great; Built to Last; How the Mighty Fall) about how crucial it is for a company seeking long-term success, to have senior leaders come from within the company. The framework presented in this book, The Leadership Pipeline, shows the path about how to make that happen. I have adapted these strategies to develop a training series in our workplace, and we are benefitting from the difference it is yielding. This book is as powerful as they come. Read it and be amazed!

This book was suggested to me as it would outline some of the management challenges I was facing. It was a very insightful read. This book helped me understand what I need to stop doing, and although I already had an idea it was helpful to see it clearly in black and white. The book outlines six promotional steps (the book calls them leadership passages) between managing self (i.e. being a worker) to Enterprise manager (e.g.CEO). It gives signs to look for showing what's working and what's not in subordinates and your own new role as well as pointers on how to address them. I recommend it to anyone who has recently been promoted as it highlights some of the things you have to learn to do and some of the things that you need to stop doing as your role changes. These include the way you work, what you value and how you manage your subordinates.

Every organization at some point seems to struggle with having leaders in the right place, knowing what is expected of them and holding them accountable for meeting these expectations. Leadership Pipeline reminds readers of just that. I was reading the book through the lens of 'how can the concept be applied to a non-profit/religious organization.' I came a way yes it could but it would have to be done in a simplified manner. The one great take away, that was repeated often in the book, was "don't move a person to a higher leadership position just because they are great at their current position." I would love to see the concept of Leadership Pipeline outlined for a volunteer based organization. I give the book four stars for the concept and its potential help to my organization. I did get lost in some of the details that did not apply to my organization structure.

Want to be a better leader? Struggle with knowing what you should be focused on at your level? Sometimes feel like you have been promoted and still doing what you did in your previous role? Want to know what it takes to get yourself to the next level? Read this wonderfully insightful book. I use this with practically all of my executive coaching clients. Leaders often fail or falter because the organization rarely provides them with a playbook of specific expectations for their role, beginning with the first level of supervisory to the c-suite role. I have assigned this to many of my leader clients (and HR sponsors) and found that the insights gained provide us some meaty places to work in the coaching and development of the leader. It's as if someone finally turned the lights on. The authors of this book do an amazing job of laying out an adaptive model that can help to clear away the fog that comes from lacking expectations for each level within an organization. If you're looking for your next great read, this will become your handbook for leadership now and into the future. As an executive coach, I highly recommend this read for leaders, executive coaches, and HR professionals.

I work with lots of small businesses and this book is one of my main tools. Many business owners get into problems by not unlearning old habits. Habits which may have served them well in the past, but are causing the, grief now. This book outlines the thought, and behavioral structures that we need as our careers develop. Although the world of small but high growth business is different, the attitudinal changes and new management paradigms are similar. I grew up on systematizing businesses, "build the system and let the system build the business's" from Michael Herber, but this is a limiting point of view. This book steps through the various layers of learning and puts them in to a logical and easy to follow form. It needs to be linked to deeper and more thorough books, but it starts the process well. I buy every book with ram charan's name on it. He is an inspiration.

Love this book, very practical and highly applicable. Would recommend to those who are interested to scale fast. Thanks Ram

Useful tool to create clarity; I'd love to have read many more real examples to help ease some of the theory.

As a COO of an organization of over 300 plus employees, I place a high value in leadership development; it is at the heart of ensuring sustainable excellence. Ram and co authors put form to the process and provide a blueprint for implementation. It works.

I highly recommend this book for the simple, but insightful model describing the transition people make as they move up the corporate ladder. It is also well written and easy to read.

Very good book to read by the industry people.

Very usefull book for any leader

Excellent product

Excelente libro para los que están haciendo la transición de contribuidor individual a gerente,