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Likability in Leadership—Necessary for Some, a Liability to Others

Great Leadership By Dan

In general, I would expect customer facing leaders to be likable but the benchmark may be somewhat different for other types of functional or technical leaders. Lastly, I look at circumstance. Likewise, there are numerous extenuating circumstances that make likability in a leader more or less necessary.

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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

Great Leadership By Dan

Benchmarking visits by groups of peer leaders to companies in other markets, to share issues and developments, are on the increase. She is the author of two books for Kogan Page in 2015: The Agile Organization , and – with Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge – Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR 2nd Edition.

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Identifying Leaders Who Could Bypass the Typical Promotion Path

Harvard Business Review

In a 2015 report, the Boston Consulting Group labeled the occurrence “ leapfrog successions.” The second, more qualitative piece, keyed in on leadership ability based on a multitude of in-depth interviews with the leader’s peers, supervisors, and direct reports done by our internal executive talent team.

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

According to PwC’s 2015 study on Global Innovation , U.S. In Conference Board’s 2015 CEO Challenge study , 943 CEOs ranked “human capital” and “innovation” as their top two long-term challenges to driving business growth. companies spend $145 billion dollars in-country on R&D each year.

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Mike Purcell Joins StrategyDriven Power & Utilities Advisory Services Practice

Strategy Driven

For decades, Mike has served in senior leadership roles within the Power & Utilities Industry. His experience includes within the nuclear oversight, quality assurance, engineering, licensing, performance benchmarking and improvement, training, leadership development, and change management functions.

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How Deloitte Made Learning a Game

Harvard Business Review

Gamification takes the essence of games — attributes such as fun, play, transparency, design and competition — and applies these to a range of real-world processes inside an organization, including learning & development. The technology research firm Gartner , Inc.