Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 5, 2011

Former Harvard Professor Chris Argyris pointed out how “upward feedback” often turns into “upward buck-passing”. If more time were spent on developing our ability to present ideas, and less time were spent on blaming others for not buying our ideas, a lot more might get accomplished. Their managers tend to view them as annoying.

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Influence Drucker Guidelines Ethics 139

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

I’ll describe those and share some practical guidelines so that others can reap them in a variety of coaching contexts — from leadership development to organizational consulting to professional mentoring — even if they aren’t similarly constrained by a handicap. When he finished unloading, he was ready to get to work.

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Argyris Document Construction Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Straight out of Argyris''s classic HBR article about why smart people can''t learn," this room is full of people skilled in all elements of leadership except collaborative work and unfamiliar with the messiness of honest, open-ended discussion. But it''s crucial to distinguish between clinical goals and business goals.

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Team Argyris Teamwork Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Our goal today is to learn our way into the future. I could have easily said "It was jet lag" or "I was over-committed and tired from trying to finish my second book." And to a degree, I believe that a lot of what many of us are taught is tied to this notion of perfection, and that it can warp our ability to keep sight of our goals.

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