The management of future leadership and succession may be among the most important issues facing any company. In this article, the authors examine the process of planning for and managing future leadership, the so-called "high potential employees" (HIPOs) from a strategic perspective. Current...

Most multinational companies agree that their managers need international expertise; but a recent survey surprisingly revealed that more than half of the large European corporations participating in the study lacked a strategy -- either in writing or as a commonly articulated value -- for...

How do European firms define high-potential employees, how do they identify and select them, how do they develop them, what problems arise in managing them, and are there differences in different European countries? In 1985, the author put these five questions to 60 companies in France, Germany,...