Review
Ed Betof captures the key to winning in these turbulent times, namely, leaders developing leaders at all levels. The BD story is a powerful benchmark showing how a CEO and team with a clear Teachable Point of View(tm) and a commitment to teach and have leaders teach at all levels both drives performance and develops a leadership pipeline for the future. –Noel Tichy, Professor, University of Michigan, Author, JUDGEMENT: How Winning Leaders Make Great CallsIn uncertain time…
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Betof’s work provides a great practical resource for those of us trying to implement the concept of leaders as teachers for the first time as well as for those looking to expand existing programs. The book is easy to read and provides a step-by-step process for getting buy-in, designing the experience, and demonstrating the business value. The book provides helpful examples that helped solidify the concepts for me. What I really liked about this book is that it provides crisp summaries of additional works that would be helpful in implementing the leaders as teachers solution (e.g. Kotter, Collins, Silberman, and Tichy). The summaries provide a useful springboard into related works with a helpful list of these referenced resources at the back of the book. I would recommend this book to my peers and it will be one of those books that I place quickly accessible on my work shelf.