Leadership Solutions: The Pathway to Bridge the Leadership Gap (Jossey-Bass Leadership Series - Canada) - Hardcover

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Dr. David Weiss is President & CEO of Weiss International Ltd. David and his team of organizational consultants lead innovative consulting projects that generate effective strategy, leadership, and HR solutions for boards, executives, and senior leaders in Canada, USA, and Europe. David has developed an extensive practice in strategic planning, executive leadership development and coaching, and organizational and HR consulting. He is an Affiliate Professor at the Joseph Rotman School of Management, a Senior Research Fellow at Queen’s University, and a Faculty Member of the Technion Institute of Management. David is a Lifetime Member of the Global Directory of Who’s Who, a lifetime Fellow Canadian HR Professional, and a recipient of the HR Leadership Award from the Asia-Pacific HR Management Association. David is a sought-after conference keynote and business motivational speaker and has authored or co-authored three other books: Beyond the Walls of Conflict, High-Performance HR, and The Leadership Gap. For more information see www.weissinternational.ca

Dr. Vince Molinaro is Principal and National Practice Lead – Organizational Solutions with Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions. He is responsible for leading the organizational consulting arm of Knightsbridge, which specializes in providing strategic facilitation, team effectiveness, leadership capacity and talent management solutions to clients. Vince has designed and implemented award-winning programs that have transformed leadership cultures for his clients. He is called upon by the media for his innovative opinions on leadership, creating high-performance organizations and executive team development. An engaging speaker, Vince conducts keynote presentations within corporations, international conferences and business schools. He received his Doctorate from the University of Toronto and has degrees from Brock University and McMaster University. Vince has published extensively in journals and business magazines. He is also the co-author of The Leadership Gap.  For more information see www.knightsbridge.ca

Dr. Liane Davey is Principal and Central Region Practice Lead―Organizational Solutions with Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions.  She is responsible for leading client engagements focused on strategic planning, executive team effectiveness and leadership capacity. Liane received her Master’s and Doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor’s from the University of Western Ontario. She has been widely published in trade and academic journals; Leadership Solutions is her first book.  For more information, visit www.knightsbridge.ca

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Praise for Leadership Solutions

“Leadership Solutions challenges the conventional focus on individual leadership development. By highlighting the critical role of culture and organizational practices, it provides the pathway to build the leadership capacity of your organization. Leadership Solutions has an ideal blend of insights and practical tools that will make it essential reading for anyone trying to accelerate the development of leadership in their organization.”
―Marianne Hasold-Schilter, Senior Vice President, Leadership & Top Talent Management, Scotiabank

“A significant work that is worth reading and re-reading. It combines clarity of thinking with the ability to be executed, resulting in value delivered each and every time”
―Paul Lucas, President & CEO, GlaxoSmithKline Inc.

“Leadership Solutions delivers what the title promises. Moving from an analysis of the leadership gap, the book offers a holistic model of leadership then offers a realistic and practical pathway forward for dealing with the leadership gap. Specific steps for determining leadership requirements, measuring the gap, and acting to build capacity move this book beyond what a lot of other leadership books offer. I also very much like the finale of the book, with its emphasis on individual responsibilities for doing your part and shaping your future. While some great leaders may be born, the vast majority are ‘made’ and the first responsibility of any leader is to take responsibility for themselves.”
―Dr. Dan Ondrack, Professor and Academic Director – Executive Programs, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

“Leadership Solutions offers the theory and practice that can enable holistic leadership to develop within a strategy-driven organization. Today, the need for leadership transcends traditional functional expertise and hierarchical structures. This book provides the template for the personal and corporate growth that will permit holistic leaders to transform any organization.”
―Dr. Robert S. Bell, MDCM, MSc, FACS, FRCSC, President and Chief Executive Officer, University Health Network

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Building leadership capacity is mission critical. In fact, it is predicted to be the biggest challenge facing executives for the next decade. However, many organizations struggle with developing the leaders they need in order to thrive now and in the future. Even more alarming is that despite significant investments many have made in leadership development, these gaps are not closing. For many organizations, the leadership gap is becoming vast and serious, but where do you start to attack the problem?

Leadership Solutions offers a practical roadmap that organizations can follow to overcome the leadership deficit they face, and to develop strong leadership as a source of sustainable competitive advantage. It outlines precisely what you as an organization need to do to build your leadership capacity and identifies what individual leaders need to do, and what they need from others, to bridge the leadership gap.

Leadership Solutions also brings concrete measurement and diagnostics to the problem of the leadership gap. It focuses on how to diagnose, understand and measure the nature and extent of your organization’s leadership deficit by conducting a comprehensive Leadership Gap Analysis™, a diagnostic process that pinpoints exactly where the gaps are in both organizational and individual leadership, analyzes the challenges, helps in understanding the nature of the organization’s leadership deficit, and generates leadership solutions tailored to the organization’s particular needs and shortcomings. This approach ensures that limited resources are applied where they matter most, and that the organization derives the greatest return on its investment in building leadership capacity.

Leadership Solutions is full of vivid stories and case studies, and features an Appendix with the tools necessary to conduct a complete Leadership Gap Analysis™--the Audit of Organizational Practices, the Survey of Leadership Culture, and the individual leaders’ 360° survey.

Leadership Solutions provides the practical tools and strategies that individual leaders, senior managers and HR professionals need to close the leadership gap in their organizations―and to unleash their internal leadership potential to drive business results.