In this important book, successful organizations--including well-known companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and Praxair--share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific methods for leadership development and organizational change. These exemplary organizations serve as models for leadership development and organizational change because they * Commit to organizational objectives and culture * Transform behaviors, cultures, and perceptions * Implement competency or organization effectiveness models * Exhibit strong top management leadership support and passion Edited by leadership and organization experts and best-selling authors Louis Carter, David Ulrich, and Marshall Goldsmith, Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change contains a wide-variety of forms, instruments, case studies, research, methods, and guides that can be used for implementing effective programs within any type of organization. Based on research from the Best Practices Institute, the book offers best practices from eighteen of the world's best organizations3/4Agilent Technologies, Corning, Delnor Hospital, Emmis Communications, First Consulting Group, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Mattel, McDonalds, MIT, Motorola, Praxair, St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network, StorageTek, and Windber Medical Center.