ABSTRACT
This chapter encourages developing leaders to seek study and mentoring and to come to the realization that lifelong learning is indeed an essential leadership skill. Leaders need to master change-management skills also they must be able to step away from compartmentalized thinking and use an integrated approach to complex organizational activity. The chapter then turns toward evaluating oneself for continuous self-improvement and developing others and planning for succession for continuing the organization's leadership. Enhancing leadership development is a responsibility of the well-managed organization. Ideally, organizations create multiple avenues for leadership development, including formal training, structured developmental opportunities, and incentives for self-study. Succession planning builds the organization from within by transitioning staff that have institutional knowledge and savvy through management levels. Distributed leadership emphasizes the sharing of functions through empowerment mechanisms such as participation and delegation. Shared leadership is one form of distributed leadership.
