- General Electric: Take leadership on the road. Training takes place not only at their famous Crotonville training facility but also online around the world.
- Proctor and Gamble: Hire for emotional intelligence: P&G looks for people with the social skills to understand customer needs.
- Nokia: Create a mentoring mentality: Top execs at Nokia are evaluated on how their subordinates rate the ability to lead, teach and inspire.
- Capital One Financial: Coach your managers: More than half their managers get a coach for a year to help hone their leadership skills.
- General Mills: Prepare to solve problems. They assemble diverse teams to compete on solving real world simulations.
- McKinsey: Groom global talent. With business in 45 countries, McKinsey insists on global cross pollination through assignments in different countries. PS…they have no “headquarters.”
- IBM: Learn through integration. IBM has acquired 69 companies in the last 7 years and has a massive corporate integration initiative underway to make it more effective and efficient.
- BBVA: Apply peer pressure.
- Infosys Technologies: Empower your employees. This Indian IT corporate leader actively solicits the ideas from their 20-somethings by creating a group of them called, Voices of Youth and gives them a seat at the company’s management council.
(Source “The Top Companies for Leaders,” Doris Burke, et al, Fortune, October 1, 2007, Vol. 156, NO.7, pp 109-114)
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