Webcast:
From the new book, The Talent Powered Organization: Strategies for Globalization, Talent Management and High Performance, co-author Bob Thomas, Executive Director of Accenture's Institute for High Performance, will discuss multiplying talent as a distinctive organizational capability to develop a lasting source of competitive advantage. Don't miss these webcast take aways:
1. The power of "talent multiplication capability" (and the corollary to develop "leadership abilities" at all levels in your organization)
2. How top companies' leaders cultivate a talent multiplier mindset
3. Develop talent's potential to expand your organization's collective abilities
4. A case study from UPS on deployment in developmental stretch assignments
Presenters
Robert J. Thomas is Executive Director of the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business based in Boston, Massachusetts and the John R. Galvin Professor of Leadership at the Fletcher School of International Affairs at Tufts University. He writes, teaches and consults about leadership and transformational change. His newest book, Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn from Experience to Be a Great Leader, will be in print in March 2008. Crucibles has been hailed by Harvard's Rosabeth Kanter as "a guide for aspiring leaders in all walks of life" and by Wharton's Mike Useem as "an organizational playbook for transforming managers into leaders."
