To adapt is too dangerous because it means you are always running behind. You have to find a way of getting ahead --call it vision, call it mission, call it cause…it is basically taking responsibility for shaping events. - Peter Drucker   

Gary Hamel of Strategos talks about the need to manage change.  Companies will need to develop effective leadership development strategies.  Read about the E-corporation.

Here are some of the consulting firms that can help with that change.

CompassPoint  Executive Leadership Information  Click Here.

Mercer Delta Consulting Mercer Delta works directly and intensively with CEOs and other senior business leaders.  They collaborate on designing changes that will enhance the effectiveness of  organizations. David Nadler leads the organization.

Human Resource Planning Society Organization dedicated to professional development within the HR function. Center for Executive Leadership Federal Executive Institute -programs for leaders of Federal, State, Local, or International government organizations. SHRM Certification SHRM certification in human resources. CERP Certification as an Employee Relations Professional, and other information. Council on Education in Management Council on Education in Management - professional development for HR professionals. Center for Creative Leadership International, non-profit educational institution focusing on Leadership development. Destiny By Design Great quotes from Drucker, Peter Senge, Tom Peters, Jack Welch, Gary Hamel, Ken Blanchard from the Shealy and Associates Home Page. Knowledge Management What is this activity called knowledge management, and why is it so important to each and every one of us?  The following writings, articles, and links offer some emerging perspectives in response to these questions. As you read on, you can determine whether it all makes any sense or not. From OutSights. They provide tools and services to help individuals leverage the knowledge they need and use everyday - whether it is a sample of best practices, a strategic document, an implementation plan, or a solution to a pressing problem.  Read Dave Ulrich on HR Human Resource Champions : The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results Delivering Results: A New Mandate for Human Resource Professionals; Dave Ulrich(Editor), et al Tomorrow's HR Management : 48 Thought Leaders Call for Change; David Ulrich(Editor), et al Accountability in Human Resource Management (Improving Human Performance Series); Jack J. Phillips Organizational Capability : Competing from the Inside Out; David Ulrich, et al.  The Leader of the Future Drucker Foundation Future series of essays on the future of leadership.  The book is in four major parts: (1) Leading the Organization of the Future, (2) Future Leaders in Action, (3) Learning to Lead in the Future, and (4) Executives on Leadership in the Future." (Bus Horiz) Index. Michael Maccoby Maccoby provides assistance in following areas: Understanding Changing Values and Culture Assessing Leadership and Organizations Leadership and Human Resource Development Designing an “Ideal Future” to Align Organization With Strategy Interactive Planning and Implementation. Marshall Goldsmith Marshall Goldsmith is a Founding Director of Keilty, Goldsmith and Company, a consulting firm based in San Diego, California. He is co-founder of The Learning Network, an association that includes many of the world's premier leadership development consultants.  Before forming KGC, Marshall was an Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business at Loyola Marymount University and a Director at the Center for Leadership Studies. The Walker Group The Walker Group is a management consulting firm specializing in integrating business strategy and the management of people.  James Walker is a well know expert on HR and succession planning, and HR Leadership Development Lynda Gratton Associate Professor, London School of Business and author of Strategic Human Resource Management:  Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality. Based on close collaboration with a number of high profile organizations such as BT, Citibank, Hewlett Packard, and Kraft Jacobs, her book sheds light on the organizational responses to large scale changes and details the changing demands made of employees in the process.  Glen Hiemstra The Futurist web site.  Glen is a leading futurist from Kirkland, Washington, and has broad experience as an international speaker.  He is frequently invited by members of the U.S. Congress to address state conferences focused on the future.  Glenn is co-author of Strategic Leadership: Achieving Your Preferred Future. Ken Blanchard Blanchard Learning Materials. INSEAD Executive Development INSEAD, Europe's leading business school, is celebrating its 40th anniversary during the academic year 1999 - 2000. It is one of the few business schools in the world that is genuinely international, combining a global perspective with first-class academic research on management. Consolidating its presence in Asia for over twenty years through the INSEAD Euro-Asia Centre, INSEAD will also inaugurate in 2000 its Asian campus located in Singapore. Academy of Human Resource Development The Academy of Human Resource Development was formed to encourage systematic study of human resource development theories, processes, and practices; to disseminate information about HRD, to encourage the application of HRD research findings, and to provide opportunities for social interaction among individuals with scholarly and professional interests in HRD from multiple disciplines and from across the globe. Nardoni.com Nardoni Associates specializing in succession planning software and process consulting. AT Kearney A.T. Kearney has a distinguished 75-year history of helping business leaders gain and sustain competitive advantage. From formulating strategic plans to operations, information technology and e-business- no one surpasses our firm when it comes to mobilizing knowledge and resources to make major improvements in a company's products and services, relationships or economics. We are issue-driven, focused on the challenges and opportunities facing the CEO and other senior executives. We call it powerful contributions to competitiveness. And our clients agree. In a recent study by Louis Harris & Associates, A.T. Kearney was ranked as the highest in overall customer satisfaction against other major high value management consultants. More than 90 percent of our clients reported being satisfied with the work that was done by the firm.

The Bostion Consulting Group BCG aims to help the world’s best organizations make decisive improvements in their direction and performance by sparking breakthrough ideas for clients, the business world, and society at large. They continually strive to generate deep insight into what drives value creation and competitive advantage in our clients’ businesses and the economy as a whole. They  work closely with clients to convert insights into strategies, whose implementation will have a substantial positive impact on performance. They consistently deliver impact which earns the trust that is the foundation of lasting relationships.

Booz Allen Booz·Allen & Hamilton is a leading management and technology consulting firm focused on business strategy and transformation. We provide services to clients on six continents through two business sectors—the Worldwide Commercial Business and the Worldwide Technology Business.

Mitchell Madison Group Mitchell Madison Group combines a close understanding of dynamics of a wide range of sectors with specific knowledge and experience in a number of functional areas, including: Business Strategy Change Management Corporate Restructuring Database driven Customer Segmentation and Marketing Distribution Management Electronic Commerce Information Systems and Technology Management Mergers and Acquisitions Organizational Effectiveness and Capability Building Payment Systems Reengineering/Restructuring Risk Management Sourcing and Outsourcing Trading Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking and securities firm, providing a full range of investing, advisory, and financing services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base, which includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high net worth individuals.  Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. After more than a century as a private partnership, the firm became a public company in 1999. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is headquartered in New York and has 41 offices in 23 countries around the globe. Bain & Company Bain & Company is one of the world's leading global strategy consulting firms, serving clients across six continents. With headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and offices in all major cities throughout the world, Bain has worked with over 1,500 major multinational and other corporations from every economic sector, in every region of the world. JP Morgan J.P. Morgan is a leading global financial firm that meets critical financial needs for business enterprises, governments, and individuals. The firm advises on corporate strategy and structure, raises capital, makes markets in financial instruments, and manages investment assets. Morgan also commits its own capital to promising enterprises and invests and trades to capture market opportunities. McKinsey & Company Over the decades, McKinsey's success and its reputation have been determined by the quality of its clients — not just the institutions, but the individuals.  We ask ourselves in every negotiation, even with long-standing clients, is the problem or opportunity big enough to justify and demand senior management's attention; are they open to new and broader perspectives; will they take action and have the discipline to see that changes get made? GoodMeasure Founded in 1977, Goodmeasure, Inc., located in Boston, Massachusetts, is a anagement consulting firm with an international practice, specializing in organizational change and innovation, and the effective implementation of strategy. The company is still managed by its founders, with Rosabeth Moss Kanter as Chairman and Barry A. Stein as President.   To staff projects, we draw on a large and diversified network of associates with a wealth of professional experience covering a wide variety of industries, and holding advanced degrees in such fields as organizational development, industrial engineering, strategic planning, systems development and MIS, communications, and training and education. Approximately 80% of our clients are Fortune 500

Warren Bennis Key Books By Bennis on Leadership: Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge  Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization  On Becoming a Leader  The 21st Century Organization: Reinventing Through Reengineering  An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership & Change  Beyond Bureaucracy: Essays on the Development and Evolution of Human Organization  Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics & Ecology

Mentoring Information Murrell, A., Crosby, F., Ely, R., ed. 1999. Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships Within Multicultural Organizations. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers. * Peddy, Shirley, Ph.D. 1998. The Art of Mentoring: Lead, Follow and Get Out Of The Way. Houston, Texas: Bullion Books publishers.  Fritts, Patricia J. 1998. The New Managerial Mentor: Becoming A Leader To Build Communities Of Purpose. Davies-Black Publishing: Palo Alto, CA.  Kathryn Tyler. 1999. Mentoring Programs Thrive Despite Scarcity of Managers. HR NEWS. Vol.18, No. 3.  Mullen, Ellen. Vocational and Psychosocial Mentoring Functions: Identifying Mentors Who Serve Both. In Human Resource Development Quarterly (319-331). Volume 9, Number 4, Winter 1998. Bell, Chip R.. 1996. Managers As Mentors. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. (415) 288-0260 Caruso, Richard E. 1992. Mentoring And The Business Environment. Brookfield, VT: Dartmouth Publishing Clawson, J. 1980. Mentoring in Managerial Careers. In C.Derr (Ed.) Work, Family, and the Career: New Frontiers in Theory and Research (144-165). New York: Praeger. Hakim, Cliff. 1994. We Are All Self-Employed. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Jeruchim, Joan & Shapiro, Pat. 1992. Women, Mentors And Success. New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine (Out of print but worth trying to find) Johnsrud, L. 1990. Mentor Relationships: Those that Help and Those that Hinder. New Directions for Higher Education, 72, 57-66. Kram, Kathy E. 1988. Mentoring Relationships At Work. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Kram, K., and Hall, D. 1989. Mentoring as an Antidote to Stress During Corporate Trauma. Human Resource Management, 28 (4), 493-510. Scandura, T. 1992. "Mentorship and Career Mobility: An Empirical Investigation." Journal of Organizational Behavior, 13, 169-174. Yamamoto, K. 1988. To See Life Grow: The Meaning of Mentorship. Theory Into Practice, 27 (3), 181-189. Zey, Michael G. 1993. The Mentor Connection. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers