The Leadership Capital Index: Realizing the Market Value of Leadership
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1626565996 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book provides a genuine edge in answering the question, How do we find the better companies? Answer: by finding the better leadership teams.”—Jim Ware, CFA, founder of the Focus Consulting Group and coauthor of High Performing Investment Teams. His deep thinking, insights, and analytical ideas have brought much-needed rigor to the practice and processes of leadership. And he suggests how entire organisations, including HR, can support leaders in creating and propagating cultures that encourage the right behaviours.”- Robert Jeffrey in People Management“No one is born a CEO. There's a full skillset that must be learned
. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from ASTD (now ATD), has repeatedly been named to the Thinkers50 list of thought leaders, and has been designated the #1 most influential international HR thought leader by HR Magazine. He is the author or coauthor of over thirty books, including The Why of Work, Leade
"A Comprehensive Prospectus on your next CEO!" according to Geraldine S. Lake. After two decades of leadership books all of which promise 7 paths to leadership ecstasy, it is refreshing to find a treatise that tries to identify empirical dimensions which can be used to: (1) assess current leaders and/or (2) potential leaders. Ulrich has done a comprehensive review of many of the previous books on leadership which may have identified two or three important leadership dimensions which worked in their situations, but in this book insights are drawn in a comprehensive pi. Marcos Malaga said Dave took leadership to the next level of value generation. I guess we always knew that leadership and building a sustainable leadership pipeline both bring value to the business, it's just that we never knew how much value until this book.. Five Stars Another masterpiece. Thankful to the seller.
But leadership underlies them all. Ulrich details rigorous metrics and methods for evaluating leaders on each of these factors. We know that financial outcomes can predict about 50 percent of a firm's market value. When it comes to evaluating a firm, leadership matters. The result is a groundbreaking book that will be of vital interest not only to equity and debt investors but also to boards of directors, executive teams, human resource and leadership development professionals, government and ratings agencies—and of course to leaders themselves.. Drawing on research from investors and business leaders, and synthesizing the work of dozens of consulting firms and leadership experts, Ulrich analyzes two broad domains, each comprising five factors. And despite how important we know it is, we've been forced to rely on subjective and unreliable ways to measure its impact—until now.In this landmark book, leadership scholar, author, and consultant Dave Ulrich proposes a “leadership capital index”—a Moody's or Standard and Poor's rating for leadership. The organizational domain encompasses a leader's ability to create customer-focused cultures, manage talent, demand accountability, use information to gain competitive advantage, and set up work processes to dea