Leadership development for small organizations: How can a small to mid-size organization create a leadership development program? The author taps GE''s chief learning officer to help answer that question.

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Leadership development for small organizations: How can a small to mid-size organization create a leadership development program? The author taps GE''s chief learning officer to help answer that question. (Lead On!).(Steve Kerr, General Electric Co.)

Publication: T&D
Publication Date: 01-MAR-02

Format: Online
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Nine months into a pilot program on leadership development, I'm meeting with my CEO. He's a brilliant guy, who generates ideas as fast as one plays pinball. "GE," he intones. "I want you to find our what GE does to develop leaders."

Naturally, I want to please my CEO, so I dust off my of...

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...copy Jack Welch and the GE Way (and some other GE texts) and search through the pages on leadership. Two names keep coming up: Crotonville, GE's corporate university, and Steve Kerr, GE's chief learning officer. Then I go to GE's Website, which is quite impressive. You can order billions of dollars worth of airline engines, make investments through GE Capital, or do like I do: read about GE'S executives, their renowned values, and their leadership.

The site says, "Please email us with any questions." So, I do and ask for more information on GE'S leadership programs. I receive a page the next day, to which I respond, "Not enough. I want more." Surprise! I'm sent Kerr's phone number. Surprise again! I'm put through, and Kerr answers his own phone.

"Hi, Steve," I say. "I'm building a leadership development program for a medium-size company, and I'd like to meet with you to find out what GE does to produce so many...

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