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The High Potential Leader: How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact

The High Potential Leader: How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact

Author: Ram Charan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons_
ISBN: 9781119286950
Published In: March 2017
Format: Hardback , 240 pages
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Companies need High Potential leaders (Hi-Po’s) more than ever before to help them adapt to todays tumultuous, digitally-driven business environment. If you meet the Hi-Po criteria, you're in high demand--and this book explains how to fast-track yourself.

Criteria for Hi-Pos are changing markedly. In the past, fast-track leaders were tapped mainly because of their cognitive abilities, analytical skills, imagination, thoroughness in finding solutions and even perfectionist tendencies. In the new climate, other attributes will count more heavily: relationship skills, experience, judgment, abilities to engage, motivate, and draw out the best performance in others, strategic skills and even personal habits and behavior style. Above all, companies see Hi-Pos as people who have the capacity to grow quickly and step into new leadership roles competently. This book is a step by step guide to becoming a high potential leader.

Chapter 1. High Potential Leaders Are Crucial to Helping Businesses Adapt and Thrive in the Digital Age

The Urgent Need for High Potential Leaders

What “High Potential” Means Now

An Important Distinction

Getting HiPos There Faster

How Hipos Can Use the Book

How Leadership Developers Should Use This Book

A Final Word

Tips for Hipos – How to Use this Book

Tips for HR and LD Leaders – How to Use this Book

Part 1. Five Essential Skills for High Potential Leaders

Chapter 2. Increase the Return on Your Time (ROYT)

Get Comfortable with People Better Than You

Set & Reset Your Priorities

Customize Your Information Flow

Delegate and Follow Through

Trust But Verify

Decide How to Leverage Yourself

Create Repeatable Processes

Be Decisive

Additional Resources

Chapter 3. Multiply the Energy and Skills of Those Around You

Identify a Person’s God-Given Talent

Build Other People’s Strengths

Make Necessary Changes Quickly

Manage the Intersections

Lead the Dialogue

Be A Social Architect

How Tony Palmer Became a Talent Magnet

Additional Resources

Chapter 4. Be a Master of Big Ideas & Execution

Make Your Big Ideas Better

How To Assess Your Good Ideas

Getting Big Ideas Executed

Execution Basics

The Art of Asking Incisive Questions

A Hipo’s Vision and Execution at Fingerhut

Bigger Than Amazon

The Failure of Vision

Additional Resources

Chapter 5. Get to Know Customers, Competitors & the Macro Environment

Observe the End-to-End Consumer Experience

Know the Competition

Dissect Ecosystems

See Your Business from the Outside In

Keep Up With Technology

Additional Resources

Chapter 6. Build Your Mental Capacity

Widen Your Lens

Keep Learning

Build Diverse Networks

Seek Information from Everywhere

Stay Mentally Flexible

Additional Resources

Part II. Taking Charge of Your Growth & Choosing Your Next Big Career Move

Chapter 7. How When and Why to Make a Leap

The Virtue of Leaps

Making Leaps Without Leaving Your Company

Build Your Own Support System

Bonnie Hill’s Multiple Leaps

Leaps Outside the Company

Weighing a Job Change

Your Exit Plan

Your Entrance Plan

Additional Resources

Chapter 8. Track Your Mental Health and Work/Life Balance

Business Achievement

Life Satisfaction

Find a Meaningful Focus

Protect Your Mental Health

How Aaron Greenblatt Found His Focus

Additional Resources

Part III. The Care & Feeding of High Potentials—Every Organization’s Precious Resource

Chapter 9. Identifying, Recruiting, and Retaining Hipos

Redefining & Finding High Potential Leaders

Creating Opportunities for Growth

Clearing the Path for Hipos

Improve Feedback Loops

Refresh the Leadership Pool

How To Use This Book To Develop Your Organization’s Hipos

Key Points for Talent Management Leaders – Chapter 9

Additional Resources

Acknowledgments

Index

RAM CHARAN is an advisor to many of the world's top CEOs and corporate boards. He is author or coauthor of twenty books, including The New York Times bestseller Execution. He has taught at Harvard Business School and GE's John F. Welch Learning Center, and is a member of six corporate boards.