Putting your leaders where it counts
Alan Bird
(Alan Bird is a partner in the Johannesburg office of Bain & Company.)
Robin Buchanan
(Robin Buchanan is the senior partner in Bain’s London office)
Paul Rogers
(Paul Rogers is a partner in London.)
Marcia Blenko
(Marcia Blenko is a partner in Boston.)
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Abstract
Companies that systematically and continuously put the right leaders in the right jobs outperform companies that don’t – by a wide margin. In this article, the authors argue that chief executives must recognize and act on the consequences of how they deploy their best managers.
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Citation
Bird, A., Buchanan, R., Rogers, P. and Blenko, M. (2004), "Putting your leaders where it counts", Handbook of Business Strategy, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 59-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/10775730410493991
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited