Chapter 1. High Potential Leaders Are Crucial to Helping Businesses Adapt and Thrive in the Digital Age
The Urgent Need for High Potential Leaders
What “High Potential” Means Now
An Important Distinction
Getting HiPos There Faster
How Hipos Can Use the Book
How Leadership Developers Should Use This Book
A Final Word
Tips for Hipos – How to Use this Book
Tips for HR and LD Leaders – How to Use this Book
Part 1. Five Essential Skills for High Potential Leaders
Chapter 2. Increase the Return on Your Time (ROYT)
Get Comfortable with People Better Than You
Set & Reset Your Priorities
Customize Your Information Flow
Delegate and Follow Through
Trust But Verify
Decide How to Leverage Yourself
Create Repeatable Processes
Be Decisive
Additional Resources
Chapter 3. Multiply the Energy and Skills of Those Around You
Identify a Person’s God-Given Talent
Build Other People’s Strengths
Make Necessary Changes Quickly
Manage the Intersections
Lead the Dialogue
Be A Social Architect
How Tony Palmer Became a Talent Magnet
Additional Resources
Chapter 4. Be a Master of Big Ideas & Execution
Make Your Big Ideas Better
How To Assess Your Good Ideas
Getting Big Ideas Executed
Execution Basics
The Art of Asking Incisive Questions
A Hipo’s Vision and Execution at Fingerhut
Bigger Than Amazon
The Failure of Vision
Additional Resources
Chapter 5. Get to Know Customers, Competitors & the Macro Environment
Observe the End-to-End Consumer Experience
Know the Competition
Dissect Ecosystems
See Your Business from the Outside In
Keep Up With Technology
Additional Resources
Chapter 6. Build Your Mental Capacity
Widen Your Lens
Keep Learning
Build Diverse Networks
Seek Information from Everywhere
Stay Mentally Flexible
Additional Resources
Part II. Taking Charge of Your Growth & Choosing Your Next Big Career Move
Chapter 7. How When and Why to Make a Leap
The Virtue of Leaps
Making Leaps Without Leaving Your Company
Build Your Own Support System
Bonnie Hill’s Multiple Leaps
Leaps Outside the Company
Weighing a Job Change
Your Exit Plan
Your Entrance Plan
Additional Resources
Chapter 8. Track Your Mental Health and Work/Life Balance
Business Achievement
Life Satisfaction
Find a Meaningful Focus
Protect Your Mental Health
How Aaron Greenblatt Found His Focus
Additional Resources
Part III. The Care & Feeding of High Potentials—Every Organization’s Precious Resource
Chapter 9. Identifying, Recruiting, and Retaining Hipos
Redefining & Finding High Potential Leaders
Creating Opportunities for Growth
Clearing the Path for Hipos
Improve Feedback Loops
Refresh the Leadership Pool
How To Use This Book To Develop Your Organization’s Hipos
Key Points for Talent Management Leaders – Chapter 9
Additional Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
