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Article: The Leadership Investment: How the World's Best Organizations Gain Strategic Advantage Through Leadership Development.(Brief Article)(Review)
- Article from:
- HRMagazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Society for Human Resource Management. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Robert M. Fulmer and Marshall Goldsmith
AMACOM, 2001,
352 pages,
List Price: $27.95
ISBN: 0-8144-0558-4
Jeffrey Immelt had plenty of internal competition before General Electric's board of directors tapped him to succeed longtime CEO Jack Welch late last year. One reason: GE's powerhouse leadership development program at Crotonville, N.Y., targets "A players" and trains about 4 percent of the company's 240,000 employees each year. That's just one way that leading global organizations are using leadership development for competitive advantage, according to authors Robert M. Fulmer and Marshall Goldsmith.
Fulmer, ...