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Three Key Criteria for Choosing the Right Custom Learning Partner

The Center For Leadership Studies

Endurance in the business of custom learning development is a key indicator that a provider is agile, innovative, responsive and able to consistently exceed client expectations. Do they share expertise via thought-leadership, publishing, webinars, blogs, etc.? Contribution to L&D industry/thought-leadership.

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

Great Leadership By Dan

Tiny niche players can emerge from nowhere to take the market or make expensively researched products obsolete overnight. This is shared leadership in action and works on the principle of “I own what I help to create”. And it also means that a new approach to leadership and management is needed. A worthy aim!

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How to Achieve Better Gender Balance through Succession Planning and Development

Great Leadership By Dan

According to research from the book Why Woman Mean Business , women now represent a majority of the talent pool, a majority of the market, and better gender balance in leadership yields better corporate performance. MARKET : Women make 80% of consumer goods purchasing decisions in the US. Focus on representation; 2.

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

However, in the realm of leadership development, there are a handful of things a leader could do that have the potential to be truly *transformational, life-altering, and help to create a whole new worldview. It could involve new people, markets, customers, products, tools, and processes, all of which are opportunities to learn and develop.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. Young leaders engage in an “action learning” project in which they work on real-life problems facing the firm. Employee Engagement Leadership' Retaining High-Impact Performers .

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. To address this challenge, J&J designed their Talent Acceleration Process (TAP) in 2012, which fast-tracks early- to mid-career individuals to senior leadership positions.