While the CEO is a very important person, our research shows that enduring business performance is really driven at much deeper levels: a focus on leadership strategy. Long term business performance comes from leadership culture and careful and continuous development of leadership at all levels. It’s not all about the CEO.

After looking at many talent management practices (including the purchase of expensive software), we found that a company’s level of maturity in their leadership development has a greater impact on their long term business performance than almost all else. And this impact transcends changes in the CEO. Let me share some of these findings and best practices.

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