The Leadership Pipeline: How To Build The Leadership-Powered
One of management's biggest challenges is finding new leaders,and one of the questions that arises in this quest is whether tobring in "new blood" and fresh ideas or take advantage of"home-grown" experts already acclimated to an organization'scorporate culture. The current labor shortage and a greaterwillingness by younger workers to change jobs have only added tothis challenge. Recent books such as High Flyers: Developing theNext Generation of Leaders (1998) and Hidden Value: How GreatCompanies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People [BKLAg 00] have weighed in on the side of "growing your own," and nowCharan and his coauthors add their support. Charan is a "leadershipcoach" and has written extensively for academic and popularbusiness journals. He and two fellow consultants describe thenatural hierarchy of work that exists in most organizations, whichtakes the form of six career passages that the authors call the"leadership pipeline." For leaders to progress, they must beworking within each
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