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The Leadership Pipeline : How to Build the Leadership Powered Company
James Noel, Ram Charan & Stephen Drotter · 2011
🎙 Narrated by Walter Dixon (2nd edition/"2E," Gildan Media, 2011 — matching the 2011 date given for this title; note the original 2001 edition was narrated by Richard Rohan and a later 3rd edition by Lee Goettl, so narrator varies by edition)
74/100
👍 Worth It
This is a genuinely useful, well-tested framework for building leaders systematically rather than promoting on gut feel, and its multiple editions over the years back up that it's held up in practice. It's dense and geared toward HR/executive readers rather than a casual listen, and there's some real ambiguity about which narrator you're actually getting since the performance varies by edition.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: unknown Walter Dixon narrates this 2nd edition per the listing, but the narrator differs across the book's several editions — no direct performance reviews for this specific edition were found.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness80
Craft & writing70
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy62
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit88
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict74
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