From the web site for Mangement Quality: www.inutsikt.se

Grow your own leaders: How to identify, develop and retain leadership talent.

(By William C. Byham, Audrey B. Smith, Matthew J. Paese (Financial Times Prentice Hall) )

An ambitious, useful book covering management supply in great detail. Nothing really new, but in the area of management quality there are many known and documented practices, with potentially great benefit, but you must put them to good use.
The authors are consultants from DDI, Development Dimensions, and this book can be seen as a publicity package, promoting their special methodology with acceleration pools . Nevertheless they present a complete view of the area, with many pieces of practical advice concerning the "Hows" of implementation - very useful for anyone responsible for a Management Supply program, or about to start such a project.
My objection is that, like US management literature generally, the content deals too much with senior management, the executive positions. The method is also presented as solving most problems, rather than being one of many useful tools in the box.
Having said this, I recommend you to share their experience of management development too often being a haphazard activity and management supply programs being overloaded with paperwork, rather than developing the key persons concerned. The key activities in management development should be: 1.) matching people and jobs, 2.) conscious choice of new tasks and responsibilities, 3.) support and 4.) evaluation of the results. The authors describe how to ensure the quality of such processes and give many examples of activities for development of a manager. Their scope is ambitious and organizations starting from zero level are facing a long-term project. But once the processes are in place and part of "business as usual", your company or organization will find itself ahead of most of your competition and peers, without feelings of unnecessary efforts or costs.
(August, 2003)