Thought Leadership
Staying ahead of trends and issues related to hiring talent, identifying talent potential, developing talent, engaging talent is our job. Whether it's benchmark research, monographs and white papers, or books, DDI is constantly exploring new ideas and expressing our viewpoints. Our goal: To move our profession and our clients forward.
Latest Trend Research
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Lessons for Leaders from the People Who Matter
This global research study was conducted at the end of 2011 and surveyed individual contributors to find out how well their frontline leaders interacted with them. The study focuses on the interaction essentials and offers best practices for improving frontline leaders' interaction skills.
Type: Trend Research: Full Report
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Creating the Conditions for Sustainable Innovation: The Leadership Imperative - Full Report
Examining leaders’ ability to drive the innovation that today’s organizations so desperately need.
Type: Trend Research: Full Report
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Leadership at the Future’s Edge: India vs. China
This Global Leadership Forecast 2011 sub-report shares data comparing China and India. We compare and contrast the two countries on a few of the dozens of key areas evaluated in our core research.
Type: Trend Research: Full Report
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Global Leadership Forecast 2011: China Highlights
DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2011 examines the current state of leadership, and explores what organizations can do to revolutionize their talent practices to remain successful and competitive. The China Country Highlights report compares local data to the global sample for a look at how well organisations in China are performing.
Type: Trend Research: Country Report
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White Papers & Monographs
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Optimizing Your Leadership Pipeline
Discusses DDI's approach, best practices and tips for implementing a Leadership Pipeline as part of a Talent Management strategy.
Type: White Papers
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The CEO’s Guide to: Preparing Future Global Leaders
A useful how-to guide regarding the talent equation. Reflects DDI’s global leadership research, expertise & experience.
Type: Booklet
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The CEO's Guide to: Talent Management
For C-level leaders to show how to make a personal contribution to build a pipeline of high-quality leadership talent.
Type: Booklet
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Super Human Resources In China: Practices, Performances, and Opportunities Among China's Manufacturers
In conjunction with IndustryWeek and MPI, this research study highlights best practices among super HR plants, in the areas of Retention/Hiring, Performance Management, Employee Development and Training, Leadership Development, Training, and Safety/Health.
Preparing for explosive growth in India & China
DDI recently teamed up with the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) to explore emerging talent management issues in China and India.