Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

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. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. An honest self-evaluation will tell you where you have to increase your emotional and interactive skills. So you must demonstrate very strong leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. economy, expands America's global trade, and attracts foreign companies to base operations in the U.S. to take advantage of America's talented leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Swansea City was a club looking for a midfield player with flair and skill. For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Why leave such valuable opportunities to chance?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Stephen R.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason. All of these were worthy, and Rheedlen's reputation and competence attracted donations - up to $10 million by 1999 - but they required a far more diverse operation. Why the disparity?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Don’t have sufficient management skills or resources to do something well.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 73

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Operational Statistics.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

They do what the client requires of them where qualified, and if they don’t possess the needed skill sets, competencies and experience they should not take the assignment. It’s just that simple. Now that I’ve stated my case, it’s time for you to weigh-in…what say you?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Insight Center.

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