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Leadership at Scale - by Claudio Feser & Michael Rennie & Nicolai Nielsen (Paperback)

Leadership at Scale - by  Claudio Feser & Michael Rennie & Nicolai Nielsen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><br>Leadership effectiveness drives organizational performance, yet almost half of all organizations face some kind of leadership gap that they are not able to fill. In <i>Leadership at Scale</i>, McKinsey experts C laudio Feser, Michael Rennie and Nicolai Nielsen share their secrets on how to increase leadership effectiveness across an organization. <p/>Using extensive research, distilled insights from McKinsey's leadership development work in practice, and lessons from a highly successful leadership development program, this book will focus on the leadership behaviors that matter most. <p/><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>A first class template</b> demonstrating how to use superior leadership to drive performance in large organizations.--<b>Paul Myners (Lord Myners), former FTSE100 Chair and Treasury Minister</b><br><br><i>Leadership at Scale</i> provides a clear methodology for increasing leadership effectiveness across an organization, not only for the top leaders, but for all employees. <b>A key resource for leaders </b>who need to prepare their organizations to master the challenges ahead.--<b>oe Jimenez, Board Director, Procter & Gamble and General Motors</b><br><br>A strong cadre of leaders is essential for firms to thrive in today's complex and fast changing environment. This <b>academically thorough, yet practical</b> book shows how to build such a cadre of a leaders.--<b>Alain Bejjani, Chief Executive Officer, Majid Al Futtaim Holding</b><br><br>An organization with better leaders will invariably have better results. This practical guide shows you how to develop your leaders by focusing on what drives performance and on what people can learn easily and quickly on the job. The authors show how <b>this approach can work for many leaders right across your organization.</b>--<b>Stuart Rose (Lord Rose), Chairman, Ocado PLC</b><br><br>At a time of technology-driven change, the need to inspire, engage and tap into the creativity of employees demands better leaders. This book sets out how that can happen.--<b>Kevin Sneader, Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company</b><br><br>I find this book very illuminating. It is <b>one of the best pieces I read about leadership</b> since <i>Leadership at Scale</i> is a unique blend of cutting edge, field-tested research on developing the right leadership at scale, and a roadmap to make it happen in practice. The book is both: <b>a state-of-the-art reference</b> for the different research findings on Leadership and <b>a practical handbook</b> of how to make sustainable and lasting change happen. It has everything for firms and their leaders to cope with today's increasingly complex, volatile and hence challenging world.--<b>Bruno Pfister, Chairman of Rothschild Bank AG</b><br><br>Large-scale organizations present particular challenges. At the NHS, Europe's largest employer, all 1.3m staff are potential leaders. This <b>deeply-researched</b> book shows how to work at scale, to simplify, concentrate and sustain leadership development for large organizations: it tells us who to develop and why, how and for how long, and in what ways. As a practical guide, it is invaluable.<br>--<b>Professor Nicki Latham, former COO Health Education England (NHS), responsible for the NHS Leadership Academy</b><br><br>Most leadership development programs disappoint or are being canceled to generate quick savings, leaving many organizations short of capable leaders. Yet, building leaders is one of the key priorities for organizations in today's dynamic and complex environment. This book <b>shows how firms can develop a leadership culture that can help them thrive and prosper.</b>--<b>Daniel Vasella, M.D., Chairman and CEO Emeritus Novartis AG</b><br><br>There are hundreds of magic recipes in the market about the most important attributes of great leaders, but most of them provide only limited help to translating these lessons into concrete leadership growth programmes across the whole organisation. <b>This book is very different.</b> It integrates the teaching on very thoroughly researched, highly practical and wide-ranging leadership development approaches with a fictitious implementation story, which <b>stays entertaining until the very end.</b>--<b>Bernd Uhe, Global Head of Human Resources, Pictet Group</b><br><br>Transformation means changing at scale starting with leaders. Our organization - like many - has limited resources and <b>this book really showed me how we could use time and money effectively to create better leaders</b> everywhere that counts.--<b>Andrea Clemente, HR Latin America Whirlpool Corporation</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br><b>Claudio Feser</b> is a Senior Partner and one of the founders of McKinsey's Leadership Development practice. Claudio has been in the Firm for 25 years and has published several leadership books, including <i>Serial Innovators</i> and <i>When Execution Isn't Enough.</i> <p/><b>Michael Rennie</b> is a former Senior Partner and Global Head of McKinsey's Organization Practice. Michael was at the Firm for over 30 years and pioneered McKinsey's approach to culture change more than 20 years ago. He has published <i>The Performance Culture Imperative</i>. <p/><b>Nicolai Chen Nielsen</b> is an Associate Partner with McKinsey, and has been with the Firm for 7 years. Nicolai leads McKinsey's latest research on leadership development at scale, and has designed and delivered leadership development programs in the public and private sectors globally.

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