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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

Over the past couple of years, we have collaborated with the leadership development team at Cargill, one of the world’s largest global agricultural processing and distribution companies, to apply these ideas in a program for high-potential managers called “Leading in a Complex World.”

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3 Ways to Take Action in the Face of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

general and former CIA director David Petraeus, now a partner in the global investment firm KKR and Chairman of KKR’s Global Institute. Petraeus has managed uncertainty of global scope and with the highest stakes. I recently discussed the issue of managing through uncertainty with retired U.S.

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Change Leadership: Overcoming Change Fatigue and Organizational Burnout

Strategy Driven

As Joan Lewis, former P&G Global Officer and SVP of Consumer and Market Knowledge says, “Hundreds or thousands of projects are good ideas but if we don’t prune the list, they will strangle each other like weeds in a garden.”. You just finished reading Change Leadership: Overcoming Change Fatigue and Organizational Burnout !

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Linda Fisher Thornton , from Leading in Context , says “Every leader should have proactive steps for learning and improving ethics - including their moral compass , their interpersonal behavior, their global thinking, their community impact and their environmental sustainability.”. Regular review and after-action review.

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Managing On-Demand Talent

Harvard Business Review

The globalization of talent and technology frees up companies to experiment with new ways of filling critical skill gaps while staying lean. To stay nimble and competitive, many organizations today rely on expert talent sourced from anywhere in the world, in a variety of ways that fall outside the traditional employment model.