Tuning into their Brain - Employee behaviour for enhanced performance

Organizations have some form of program designed to nurture high-potential employees. However a recent study by the Corporate Executive Board revealed that 40% of "high-potential" job moves  produce disappointing results. Disengagement of employees also is remarkable: One in three emerging stars reported feeling disengaged from his or her company.  Even more striking, 12% of all the high potentials in the study said they were actively searching for a new job.  Why do companies have so much difficulty in their succession planning?

Learning to Lead

Herminia Ibarra , Professor of Organizational Behavior, and Faculty Director of the INSEAD Leadership Initiative, contests that we learn to lead in relationship, by becoming a part of a community and network of leaders, but what we preach, however, is very different.   Let's draw some inferences by considering a few schools of thought: