The New Leaders

By the year 2000, white males will represent less than one third of the American workforce. In this universally praised work, Ann Morrison, co-author of Breaking The Glass Ceiling, becomes the first to offer companies practical strategies for moving tomorrow's new leaders -- white women and people of color -- into the executive ranks. Using personal interviews with nearly 200 managers in organizations noted for their model diversity programs, Morrison presents a very definite, step-by-step action plan that will prove invaluable to leaders looking to guide their businesses into the next century.

Introduction: Diversity: The Turbulent Evolution of a SensitiveIssue. Part One: Leadership Diversity as Strategy. 1. Achieving Benefits from Leadership Diversity. 2. Challenging the Barriers to Opportunity. 3. Setting Goals for Sustained Leadership Development. Part Two: Leadership Diversity as Procedure. 4. Establishing Accountability for Diversity. 5. Creating Meaningful Development Opportunities. 6. Using Recruitment to Build Diversity. Part Three: Leadership Diversity as Action. 7. Step One: Discover (and Rediscover) Diversity Problems in YourOrganization. 8. Step Two: Strengthen Top-Management Commitment. 9. Step Three: Choose Solutions That Fit a Balanced Strategy. 10. Step Four: Demand Results and Revisit the Goals. 11. Step Five: Use Building Blocks to Maintain Momentum. Conclusion: Meeting the Challenges of Leadership Diversity.