Pouring money into leadership development doesn’t guarantee results. Business leader John Mattone shows how to gauge and maximize your efforts so that you can begin identifying, managing, and developing high-potential and emerging leaders--based on their capabilities, commitment, and alignment with organizational goals. Packed with research findings, best practices, case studies, proprietary assessments, and more, Talent Leadership teaches readers how to employ assessments to benchmark current and future executive talent, how to use the resulting data to identify leaders with potential, and how to leverage analysis to target training and coaching where they will have the greatest impact.Most companies have no real way to gauge whether their endeavors are paying off--much less where they are falling short. Measuring, calibrating, and recalibrating the leading indicators that directly predict organizational health brings a much-needed numbers focus to the crucial task of creating a world-class leadership-development program--one that not only improves individual performance, but also increases your organization’s overall operating success