Golf and the game of leadership 14. Sách tham khảo học hỏi kỹ năng tổ chức lãnh đạo. Trong cuốn sách này, Bill Haupt, cựu quản lý điều hành phát triển tại General Motors, một người bạn lâu năm và đồng nghiệp, cung cấp đầu vào, cái nhìn sâu sắc. Ông là một niềm vui để mọi người làm việc với, một''lãnh đạo thực sự,''và rất con người. Ann và Bill tham gia từ đầu đến cuối trong thực hiện cuốn sách có giá trị, dễ đọc, và thú vị này | 120 Golf and the Game of Leadership The Professional A human resource HR professional was directly responsible to the CEO for the management of the progression and succession planning of senior company executives. She handled the charting and updating for the CEO served as an information source and played devil s advocate in their discussions. This function was obviously top secret. Only the CEO and the HR professional knew the details of the plan. The HR professional did not report directly to the CEO in matters other than progression and succession. Her boss did report directly to the CEO and was responsible for several functions including HR. His competence level in HR lagged well behind his confidence level or in this case his ego. Further he was obviously a person who had to be considered in the progression and succession planning process. Yet he thought that he and not his subordinate should be handling the process. He outwardly expressed his displeasure with her involvement and constantly pressured her for information contained in the plan. She steadfastly kept her confidence with the CEO. Her boss in turn reflected in his actions a lack of confidence in his ability to compete fairly with his peers as well as a lack of confidence in the CEO and his own HR person to professionally manage a very important and delicate process. Yes-Man The decision had been made to get rid of a product that was not performing to expectations. One manager Roberts believed a joint venture with another company to develop the market for the product was a better option. So she convinced the CEO to look at the idea together with Adams the manager in charge of the product in question. The CEO however said Adams won t really help us. The CEO then scripted how the meeting should go. He would initially oppose continuing the product and Adams would agree. Then Roberts was to express the joint venture idea and the CEO would seem to support it. And Adams would agree. Big Bertha Confidence .
