Leader to Leader (LTL) by Joe LeBoeuf (9780787995683)

Description - Leader to Leader (LTL) by Joe LeBoeuf

An Introduction to this Special Supplement of Leader to
Leader, "Leaders: Their Education and Development Today"
Presented by the Fuqua School of Business and its Fuqua/Coach
K Center on Leadership and Ethics (COLE) at Duke University
According to recent studies by Hewitt Associates and the Human
Resources Institute, the need for effective leader development
programs is consistently one of the top three issues facing human
resources managers across the Fortune 500 list of the world's
largest companies. With the pending retirement of nearly 78 million
Baby Boomers over the next several years, the potential for a huge
gap in leadership is a significant threat to this nation's ability
to remain the global leader in the world economy. Additionally, the
new wave of talent entering the workforce, the Millennials, want -
and will even demand - more and better forms of effective
education, training, and development in their preparation to be the
leaders of our future enterprises.
The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University has recognized
this emerging need for leadership - and particularly the need for
ethical leaders who will operate in the middle of organizations. At
Fuqua, our aspiration is not only to educate outstanding managers
capable of administering and maintaining the highest standards of
an existing organization, it is also to create ethical leaders
capable of developing and implementing new ideas and business
concepts while enacting responsible ethical values. In 2004, Fuqua
established the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics
(COLE) to foster the development of rigorous research in leadership
and ethics, expand the repertoire of leadership and ethics teaching
materials, and build a leadership-focused educational experience
for its students. The center's mission to develop leaders includes
initiatives such as the Leadership Fellows program, course
development, and advising the student programs in a way that seeds
leadership throughout the school's team oriented culture. These
initiatives recognize that effective leadership development is a
planned change process and that programs must be organized and
integrated to achieve desired leadership education and leader
development outcomes.
So when Leader to Leader offered us the opportunity to
describe the efforts of Fuqua and its COLE center at organizing and
integrating initiatives to create the conditions for effective
leadership education and leader development, embedded in
educational programs that have already achieved world-class
recognition, we accepted readily. Our efforts are designed to
create transformational experiences that enable participants to
meet the emerging demand of business and industry for people who
are not only competent in the hard skills of technical expertise
(our core strength at a place renowned for business research), but
also have the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies on the
softer side to engage others effectively as leaders.
Joe LeBoeuf, Professor of Practice and COLE Center
Scholar
Sanyin Siang, Managing Director and Sr. Research Associate,
COLE

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