highly talented people whose development is ignored. The graph below shows 360 ratings for 54 HIPO’s compared to other leaders in the organization. Note that the HIPO’s are rated more positively on overall leadership effectiveness by all rater groups. The disquieting fact in the data, however, is that in this group of high potentials 35% of the leaders were rated below average on their leadership effectiveness and 7% were rated at the 30th percentile or lower.