Strategy implementation is best accomplished through high‐performing people. Every organization must develop and retain its high‐performing employees who are focused on giving target customers what they want. Key performance factors are explored including clear mission and strategy,...

Superstars, or prominent managers who are responsible for strategic external relationships, are a resource for domestic firms and multinational corporations (MNCs). Theory suggests that MNCs employ superstars to manage organizational legitimacy and offer greater compensation and promotion...

Despite their fairly widespread use among large companies, little information is available to those interested in designing, managing, or evaluating high‐potential (fast‐track) management development programmes. In an attempt to fill this void, three sources of programme ineffectiveness are...

We live in the age of the high‐flyer – fast‐rising movers and shakers destined to transform sluggish corporations into entrepreneurial gems. The downside of such simple strategies is finding high‐flyers and then controlling them. Offers words of advice.