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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Review of “The New Extraordinary Leader”

The Practical Leader

They sought to pinpoint the leadership competencies differentiating the top 10 percent of leaders from the bottom 10 percent of leaders. From dozens of leadership competencies, they found 16 that reliably predicted those outcomes. This edition featured 20 key insights on leadership development. Women are better leaders than men.

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Emerging Economy Leadership Needs Private Sector Planning

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, the leadership successions of greatest significance will likely not take place as the result of presidential elections in the U.S., Looking beyond 2012, the current generation of political leaders in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa are aging, bringing the issue of succession to the fore.

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Macho Cultures Are Fairer for Women

Harvard Business Review

In the 2012 Grant Thornton survey of the gender balance in senior executive roles, for example, Brazil had 27% women and 73% men, compared to the US with 17% women and 83% men. On this basis, Brazilian business leadership is already more gender balanced than the US. The Brazilians never fell into this trap.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Looming Talent Drought?

Harvard Business Review

I reached that conclusion in 2007, after working with Nitin Nohria, the current dean of Harvard Business School, and colleagues at the executive search firm Egon Zehnder to gauge the effects of three factors – globalization , demographics, and leadership pipelines – on competition for senior talent in large organizations.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Women have fewer leadership role models and they arguably have greater demands outside of work competing for their attention. The Start Up Paradox.

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What Happens When Careers Last 20 Years Longer?

Harvard Business Review

Our decades strangely resemble each other – and have big implications for how individuals and companies may want to rethink a whole host of issues, from career management and pensions to mobility and leadership criteria. For decades, this has eliminated too many women from leadership pipelines. in 2012, up from 14.3%

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