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

Harvard Business Review

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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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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How a Turkish Bank Became the Employer of Choice

Harvard Business Review

But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. Our experience at Garanti Bank shows how even in seemingly the worst of circumstances, companies can become the most attractive of employers.

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How to Anticipate a Burning Platform

Harvard Business Review

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. The result: the Nook debuted in 2009 and leapfrogged the Kindle in key features, capturing nearly a third of the e-reader market and probably saving the company's life.

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The Connection Between Employee Trust and Financial Performance

Harvard Business Review

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. ” These trust taxes and dividends are real and essential for leaders to understand as they develop their trust-building competence. How to Develop the Trust-Building Skill. Was this a prison?

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

Effective Crisis Handling, Case Studies. So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. Business development. Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. Crises can and will happen to good organizations.

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