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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

They are actively involved in building their business, developing their strategies, growing and maintaining strong customer relationships, and creating a service offering that’s attractive to their market. More-formal methods, such as after-action reviews, are useful too. Involve Experts as Part of the Brain Trust.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Some knowledge transfer methods to consider are mentoring, social networks, Communities of Practice, After Action Reviews, and storytelling programs. But you’ve also set the foundation of a knowledge culture, where every member of the team contributes what they know for the benefit of the organization.

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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business Review

Barbara Kellerman from Harvard, Jeffrey Pfeffer from Stanford, and numerous other experts have pointed out that the development market is filled with fads — slick behavioral models and fun, engaging tools — that don’t really move the needle. But there’s little evidence that much of this works. Insight Center.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Here’s why: “Most organizations see leaders'' as drivers of results - exceeding sales quotas, deepening market share, boosting profits, etc. Given the pace of change, complexity of business, ever-shifting markets, and escalating expectations (just to name a few), the only sustainable advantage an organization has is its people.

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Change Leadership: Overcoming Change Fatigue and Organizational Burnout

Strategy Driven

It may sound counterintuitive, but the single biggest thing we can do to achieve stronger results with less burnout is to shut down worthy projects, teams, and task forces. Try Prioritization Grid Sessions with your teams to identify the highest impact initiatives. Interested in lightening your organization’s and your own load?

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3 Ways to Take Action in the Face of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

. “For the military,” Petraeus observed, “learning faster than the enemy meant deploying lessons learned teams and ensuring commanders are focused on identifying the need to make changes to our big ideas, campaign plans, organizational structures, equipment, and operational bases.”

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Managing On-Demand Talent

Harvard Business Review

For example, being clear that agile talent is a supplement, not a replacement, for internal staff is critical, as is explaining to others in the organization the strategic benefits of agile talent — such as access to new technology, speed, market discipline, and flexibility — rather than emphasizing any cost savings.