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The Widening Gap Between Leaders and Up-and-coming Leaders…and What to Do About It

Great Leadership By Dan

What’s needed to overcome what I call the “leadership crisis,” is not new technology or massive staffing changes. people), innovative practices such as job rotation, leadership development through coaching, mentoring, action-learning, and next-generation behavioral performance evaluation must all be considered.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. Young leaders engage in an “action learning” project in which they work on real-life problems facing the firm. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Provide intrapreneurial opportunities.

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, if your company isn’t leveraging action learning to develop leaders, fuel innovation, foster collaboration, and catalyze growth then you are missing a substantial opportunity. My message is a simple one…stop pondering and pontificating make a decision and take action.

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Innovation Isn’t the Answer to All Your Problems

Harvard Business Review

Run an action-learning program to develop the top leadership team’s ability to confront ambiguity. Hitting growth and profit objectives, then, requires boosting the ability to create new businesses that wouldn’t naturally result from day-to-day operations. Set up a new-growth group. Launch an idea contest.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Take, for example, the impact of online technology. Each group has its own operating procedures. But a lot has changed. Does this mean that all business goes online?

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Traditional Marketing Planning Is Wrong for Your New Venture

Harvard Business Review

This strategy uses a different set of management processes focused on speedy action, learning through failure, and a premeditated approach to market experimentation that creates instant feedback. We don't yet know whether Glassboard's technology will be a market winner.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Having been trained by one of the best companies in the world on Leadership Development, (GE), in one of the best action learning environments in the world (a high performance culture), I frown on textbook practitioners.

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