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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

John Hunter , from Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog , says “ One item I think every leader should have in their IDP is to continue to improve coaching their staff. In an organizational setting this applies equally, where people empower themselves through creativity, innovation and superior customer service.”. Jennifer V.

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Your Team Needs an Intervention

Harvard Business Review

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. Of course, intervention has to be done right. Talent management'

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How to Act Quickly Without Sacrificing Critical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

To balance these two extremes, you need reflective urgency — the ability to bring conscious, rapid reflection to the priorities of the moment — to align your best thinking with the swiftest course of action. for relationship-defining moments, innovation-specific work, etc.),

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

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What I Learned from My TED Talk

Harvard Business Review

Instead of perfection and getting it right the first time, innovation can be continuous, and core rather than episodic. This carries a risk of course: It may turn out that I'm less "appropriate" in future talks , and my imperfections and flaws may not resonate. because innovation and creativity are rarely about doing more of the same.