Robert W. Eichinger Vice Chairman of the Korn/Ferry Institute
Minneapolis

Bob Eichinger is Vice Chairman of the Korn/Ferry Institute for Korn/Ferry International. Prior to Korn/Ferry’s acquisition of Lominger International, he was cofounder and CEO of Lominger Limited, Inc. and cocreator of the Leadership Architect® Suite of management, executive, and organizational development tools. During his 40+ year career, he has worked inside companies such as PepsiCo and Pillsbury, and as a consultant in Fortune 500 companies in the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia. Dr. Eichinger lectures extensively on the topic of executive and management development and has served on the Board of the Human Resource Planning Society. He has worked as a coach with more than 1,000 managers and executives. Some of his books include The Leadership Machine, written with Mike Lombardo, 100 Things You Need to Know: Best People Practices for Managers & HR, written with Mike Lombardo and Dave Ulrich, and FYI for Strategic Effectiveness™, written with Kim Ruyle and Dave Ulrich.

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High Potentials as High Learners

By Robert W. Eichinger

The premise of this article is that if people learn, grow, and change across time (and consequently develop new skills) then comparing high potentials with the competencies of 50-year-olds will not be totally informative. Selection should be a combination of looking at those characteristics that don’t change much and can be detected early (such as intelligence) and those that flower across time as the person learns to deal with fresh situations

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