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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. An assessment should be done of the high potential employees to determine their current strengths and development needs. Case Study: XYZ Widget Manufacturing Corporation. Gina's also hosting a guest post from me over at her blog.

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Judgment Calls

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Books like Built to Last (Collins and Porras, 1997) and Good to Great (Collins, 2001) have laid a foundation. Judgment Calls shows what it looks like in organizations that have developed the ability to make better decisions through a broad-based, data-intensive approach.

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Recognizing Habits That Undermine Goals

Coaching Tip

Minds at Work in Cambridge, Mass, founded by Robert Kegan, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Lisa Lahey, a development psychologist who also teaches at Harvard, guides executives through a step-by-step process of self-examination and gradual behavioral change. Source: The New York Times, March 18, 2012.

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Tyranny of Metrics

Deming Institute

The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid. Muller concludes with a chapter on his proposed proper use of metrics. As head of a university department, he saw the impacts of the metrics arms race.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

After graduating from Princeton in 2001, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. Leadership is about showing common courtesies, caring and encouraging the growth and development of those whom you lead. Why was that the case? Leadership is about care and compassion.

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Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way

Harvard Business Review

When he discovered I was writing a book on professional reinvention, he asked for my thoughts about Rachael Ray , the perky Food Network star and the subject of one of his Harvard Business School case studies. Skills development comes first. Broad public exposure won't do you much good if your ideas and skills aren't sharp.

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

To help shine some light on this topic, I've decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard. Akamai: The Present.

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