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

Great Leadership By Dan

So how do agile organizations square the circle – obtaining the speed, innovation and flexibility they want – while employees get the fair deal, at least in terms of development, flexibility and empowerment, they want? Is it possible to get the best of both worlds?

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How to Avoid Your Leadership Gap

Leading Blog

“What is the gap between who I am and who I want to be, and do I know what it is I still need to learn?” In short, “Who am I being?” And when there is that gap between how we want to be perceived and how we are actually being perceived, we need to take action.

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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

We have broad categories and a bunch of ideas on how to focus and improve them…Next steps would be to take the broad categories and ask the team to develop some short term measurement / milestones to show progress and achievement in the categories. Mike is your answer. Contact Mike ( mike@create-learning.com ).

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Team Building Without Time Wasting

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are finding themselves members of all kinds of teams, including virtual teams, autonomous teams, cross-functional teams, and action-learning teams. and (2) ‘On a 1 to 10 scale, how well do we need to be doing in terms of working together as a team?’?. and ‘following up.’?. Step Eleven.

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Great Leadership for Challenging Times

Great Leadership By Dan

Yes, they can “handle the truth”, and once they get over it, will want to pitch in and be willing to sacrifice in the short term for the greater good. Think task forces, committees, action learning, and Kaizen workshops. Let people know exactly what the situation is and what needs to be done. Ask for their help.

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

In a business context, individual development goals should be closely aligned with your short and long term job responsibilities. Learning to adapt in a strange new world can be scary, yet incredibly rewarding. If you’re not ready for this, try a short-term expat assignment. And sorry, no, a vacation doesn’t count.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

If you have months for a transition, Leonard suggests creating a “carefully constructed action plan of learning,” whereby the “highly skilled, deep smarts employee is paired with one or more replacements” so they can observe her in action, learn and practice new skills, and receive feedback on their performance.