“Organisations waste thousands, and in some cases millions of pounds every year by appointing the wrong people to leadership positions or by not developing them to become effective leaders, or by creating cultures in which even the most potentially effective leaders are frustrated daily in their efforts to have the greatest positive impact on the performance of their employer.”
Says who? Says the CIPD, that’s who. The above is the first paragraph of the introduction to a 60-page report, ‘Shaping the Future’, which it published some two and a half years ago.
So why re-visit it now? Because nothing seems to have changed as far as many organisations are concerned. The more enlightened ones have, of course, taken heed of this report, of other research and of their own situation to begin implementing effective leadership development programmes. But others have not.
I hate to suggest that our cousins across the pond do anything better than us. But I have to admit that it is interesting that in a recent international survey of top companies for leadership almost all are US-based. (See my post of Feb 20 – Essential reading about leadership.)
Why is it that some British companies which have proved so innovative in so many areas over the years, seem to be stuck in some kind of time warp when it comes to investing in much-needed leadership development?
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