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Biografisk notat
KENT JONASEN, is cofounder and global CEO of Leadership Pipeline Institute. Before cofounding LPI together with Stephen Drotter, Kent spent twelve years in Human Resources in A. P. Moller - Maersk as regional HR director and later as deputy head of group h human resources from 2003 to 2008. In this role he was responsible for talent management, leadership development, executive development, and strategic talent acquisition. At A. P. Moller - Maersk, Kent led the implementation of company-wide integrated leadership development initiative based on the Leadership Pipeline concept to impact more than ten thousand leaders in more than one hundred countries. The project secured reliable executive succession plans and a 90 percent hit ratio on talent in the executive talent pool. Over the past ten years, Kent has been part of implementing the Leadership Pipeline and the Specialist Pipeline concept in more than fifty large international organizations.The lack of focus on specialists and the absence of a specialist architecture present real business challenges.
Many organizations articulate how important specialists are to the organization. Yet very few organizations have supporting architecture and structured development programs for specialists — at least not beyond a title structure and purely technical training.
Organizations need an enduring specialist architecture that enables the entire organization to work with and talk about people matters in a consistent way. This architecture needs to set common standards for both performance potential and development, differentiated by different levels of specialists. It should also establish language and processes to address issues, identify problems, and exploit opportunities effectively, as well as data for making decisions about everything from job transition to performance.
This book will guide you on how fill the gap and get the necessary Specialist Pipeline architecture in place.
Foreword
Preface
SECTION 1 The Big Idea
Introduction
The Career Stories of Three Specialists
SECTION 2 The Specialist Pipeline Concept
The Specialist Pipeline Concept—An Overview
From Professional to Knowledge Expert
From Knowledge Expert to Knowledge Leader
From Knowledge Leader to Knowledge Principal
SECTION 3 Successful Implementation of the Specialist Pipeline
Defining Your Specialist Pipeline
Implementation Strategy
Enabling Role Transition
Combining the Specialist Pipeline and the Leadership Pipeline
About the Author
"“As we transition from the industrial age to the knowledge era, many organizations, first in tech and now across industries, tinker with the specialist career, in addition to the traditional leadership career and maybe also a project management career. However, they often don’t know how to go about it and end up with a rather superficial solution. Here comes Kent Jonasen’s The Specialist Pipeline, which proposes a clear framework, grounded in many years of fieldwork, for how to differentiate between different levels of expertise, set respective performance expectations for specialists at all levels, and successfully manage transitions from one level to the other. The book is at the same time theoretical and practical and rich in examples and case studies. It should be a must-read for all those who plan to implement a specialist career model. I wish it as much success as its sibling, The Leadership Pipeline, has garnered over the years.”
— Dr. Martin Moehrle
Director of Corporate Services, EFMD;
former Global Head of Learning and Talent, Deutsche Bank and UBS
“There are two keys to creating value in the volatile market environment in which we operate. First, there is talent in the C suite, which is necessary but not sufficient. Second, and often unrecognized, is having talent three or four levels deep in the organization, at the point where value comes to fruition. In The Specialist Pipeline, Kent Jonasen provides an insightful and actionable roadmap to attracting, developing, and retaining specialist talent, essential to value creation.”
— Bill Allen
Senior Partner, CEO Works; former CHRO, Macy’s and A . P . Moller - Maersk