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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. Fostered global teamwork.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Sure, in some cases I coach and mentor, but most of my clients simply view me as their closest personal advisor. I don’t really care whether the client is aided by mentoring, teaching, coaching, consulting or a mix of all the above – I just care that they receive real results. It’s just that simple.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business Review

employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires.