Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today

Nov. 19, 2010 - PRLog -- In recent years, India’s role as a driver of worldwide economic growth (with Brazil, Russia and China or the BRIC countries) has been recognized. With one of the world’s fastest growing economies as a base, many Indian businesses are running to take their place on the global stage. India is poised for future business growth. The situation demands a new kind of leader at all levels. Can the leadership talent needed to run behemoth organizations be developed as quickly as needed?

The new book, “Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders Today: Insights from Corporate India” (ISBN: 978-0-470-82568-6) by Meena Surie Wilson and the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) offers thoroughly-researched pointers on how Indian managers can become high-performing business leaders. The leadership development curriculum proposed in these pages is based on extracting lessons from on-the-job experience – Given that the workplace is the medium through which the essentials of leadership are learned, executives and managers at all levels need to know which experiences matter, what are the foremost lessons learned, and how learning occurs.

Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today offers a complete template for effective leadership, including:

•   The seven experiences vital for developing leadership ability
•   The 11 lessons in leadership essential for managerial effectiveness
•   Over 50 stories and 100 wise quotations from today's senior executives that portray how leadership acumen sharpens over time
•   Reflective exercises, self-assessments, and guidelines for self-improvement

The underlying research was conducted in cooperation with the Tata Management Training Center in Pune, India, and captures the experiences and leadership lessons learned by over 100 senior Indian business leaders. As such, it offers readers both a compass and a map for traversing the terrain of leadership development.

Early and mid-career managers will find a roadmap in these pages for steering their careers towards the echelons of executive leadership. Senior executives, at the top of their game, will find a systematic and proactive approach to cultivating today the leadership talent that their organizations will need tomorrow.

About the Author:
Meena Wilson is on the faculty of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), and is currently based in India. She is engaged in leadership research; program design and evaluation; feedback; and coaching.

Meena was responsible for launching the Center's Asia Pacific office in Singapore in 2003 and for starting up a Research, Innovation, and Product Development-APAC unit in 2006. Her research focuses on how leadership is learned from experience, cross-cultural competence, and intercultural value differences. Her credits include several book chapters and lead authorship of International Success: Selecting, Developing, and Supporting Expatriate Managers (1998) and Managing across Cultures: A Learning Framework (1996).
Meena completed her undergraduate studies at Mills College in Oakland, CA, holds a M.S. degree in television-radio journalism from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in adult and organizational development from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

About the Center for Creative Leadership:
Ranked among the world's top providers of executive education by Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the Financial Times, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) develops better leaders through its exclusive focus on leadership development and research, and is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, with locations in Colorado Springs, Colorado; San Diego, California; Brussels, Belgium; Moscow, Russia; Singapore; Pune, India; and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of information and understanding for over 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations.