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Leading Rookie Talent: A Sizing Guide for Stretch Assignments

Leading Blog

They work lean and agile, the smart way all professionals should be working in the current, constantly changing environment. In this environment, the ability to learn is far more critical than one’s accumulated knowledge. They insisted that there was no room for learning when someone is flatlining on the operating table.

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My Top 10 Leadership Insights For 2014

Tanveer Naseer

A milestone that I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to celebrate here on my blog with the help of such leadership luminaries as Doug Conant , Liz Wiseman , Jim Kouzes, Barry Posner , and David Burkus. Leadership insight #9 : To improve agility, we need to strengthen our curiosity, which requires making time from work routines.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

An environment of rapid change demands more and better questions from us. Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development.

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