Next Generation Leaders: Getting Tomorrow's Leaders Ready Today. This item is unavailable.Next Generation Leaders: Getting Tomorrow's Leaders Ready Today

Virtually all CEOs say the development of their companies' middle managers is a critical success factor, but research indicates that only 28 percent of companies have a program in place that addresses their needs. To turn the tide, organizations need to support and develop middle managers so they can learn to become a new breed of leader--a change leader who knows how to connect, exercise influence, foster trust, and build commitment to a common purpose among far-flung work teams. In Next Generation Leaders, you will learn the steps for finding, hiring, and developing engaged, entrepreneurial employees; effective leadership practices and tools for building high-performing teams; techniques for developing a trust relationship with each of your clients and company stakeholders; and ways to grow your business base by extending and expanding current revenue sources and by serving your current customers through enhanced customer intimacy.

Martin O'Neill runs Consum Consulting, which focuses on one goal: helping companies build value. Martin teaches entrepreneurship classes at the University of Maryland. He is a frequent speaker and consultant on leadership, corporate culture and building enterprise value and is the coauthor of Act Like and Owner (Wiley '99). As a business operator, Martin started and sold a company, positioned another for a leveraged buyout and helped a third sell for a significant premium. Martin lives near Annapolis, MD of the Magothy River with his wife and their three children.