This working paper explores the challenges of accelerated development of organizational talent. The meaning of the word 'accelerated' is that such development takes place at a pace that is significantly higher than that of 'traditional' development that allows an individual to learn the...

This paper argues that global leaders in the twenty-first century are major differentiators of success in an organization. We suggest that due to the changing nature of organizations, a more distributed view of leadership is needed for long-term success. A global leadership development pipeline...

Like Kamath of ICICI Bank, there are well-known business leaders in India: Narayan Murthy in the IT industry, Sunil Mittal in Telecom, Kiran Mazumdar in Biotech, Ambani in Oil and natural gas and Rahul Bajaj, Anand Mahindra and Ratan Tata in Automobiles. In the previous chapters, we discussed...

Education and training place different demands on institutions and the workforce, as well as the educators themselves. Both education and training are essential to organizational profitability. Clear separation and understanding of management education and training strategy provide advantage but...

This article explores the impact of a transformational leadership development program on the lives of its participants after a one year interval. We address three fundamental questions: (1) What does a transformational leadership program transform? (2) How does the change process occur? (3) How...