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Are We Setting Our Leaders Up For Success?

CoachStation

People get hired or promoted into leadership roles every day. 1) The opportunity to develop our future leaders before placing them into leadership roles is an obvious one. Building employee skills, capability and awareness to be ready for leadership is ideal, yet is rarely applied well in practice.

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The Peril of Untrained Entry-Level Employees

Harvard Business Review

More than half (52 percent) of respondents who graduated in 2012 and 2013 and managed to find jobs tell us they did not receive any formal training in those positions. To “future proof” your business, you need to fill and maintain a pipeline of people steadily gaining experience and advancing toward leadership roles.

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

The SEALs leadership recognized that technical excellence—better shooting and better shots—didn’t go nearly far enough in addressing the complex environments and demands that would be made upon sniper teams in wartime deployments in multiple theaters. . This was a precarious time. This made a huge difference.

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How SAP Labs India Became An Innovation Dynamo

Harvard Business Review

SAP's senior management asked Ferose to shore up employee morale at SAP Labs India, where the attrition rate had reached a painful 19% in 2009. Ferose's mandate was to reduce employee turnover to below 10% by 2012. In the annual ranking of best employers in India, SAP Labs India has risen to the #4 position in a very short time.

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Why Mega-Mergers Are Back in Vogue for Internet Companies

Harvard Business Review

Facebook tried to ignore Wall Street pressure in 2012 upon its IPO, but quickly decided to shift course after experiencing attrition. However for the companies that are already public and don’t have a dominant position in their category, they have become acquisition targets.

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