Julie, what a great twist on the acronym. I thought you had gone off the deep end when I saw the title.  Excellent post!

Sometimes I think many leaders think that career development for their people is an expensive luxury. It's one of those things they wish they could do more, but in the end, everything else is more urgent and whatever money is left at the end of the fiscal period ends up distributed to stockholders or earmarked for the next drama.  The tyranny of the urgent often kills obsession with career development for all but the most courageous leaders.

Thanks for the great post. I hope we hear more about organizations with the courage to be OCD in this sense! Mike...