It may be that leadership development , as often carried out as a human resource management practice, is a takeover bid
for leadership by that function, and I am sure it often is.however, it is more often the case that in leading successful organisation senior leadership spends a very high proportion of its time on leadership development , development the people
the they work through and who work for them, and who may be their successors. Fortune magazine lists the world's best
lead organisations, according to a panel of expert judges, and supports this point. Their top three in 2007 were General
Electric, Proctor and Gamble and Nokia.