Unpreparedness for the challenge of leadership is one of the biggest adversities is in today’s business world. It increasingly and negatively affects companies every single day – and what might surprise you is that it is just not endemic within executive and senior director circles, but detectable at all levels of the organization. Our lack of awareness and understanding that we need to develop leaders from within our organization is somehow supported by an operational complacency and organizational conceit that we “can hire leaders off the street”.