Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. A few years ago, Ed Whitacre took over as CEO at General Motors even though he had limited experience in the automotive industry. Switching from individual contributor role to a leadership role is stressful.

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Automotive Collins Learning-by-Doing CEO 461

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Workers were also encouraged to move from family to family to expand their range of skills. Rather than making their powerful writing skills even stronger, children weak in geography waste time on remedial geography with few results.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Innovative leaders excel at a skill we call “forward thinking.” Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Workers were also encouraged to move from family to family to expand their range of skills. Rather than making their powerful writing skills even stronger, children weak in geography waste time on remedial geography with few results.

Waterman 56

Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Business ownership consumes large quantities of time and mental energy, even after it’s running well and succeeding. It consumed so much time and energy that I didn’t have much left for anything else.

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 257

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Mindfulness is now seen as a crucial skill in business. It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Wack perceived the world differently than his colleagues in the energy business. Gurdjieff in Paris.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The factory floor at Pittsburgh’s Aquion Energy doesn’t look much like the steel mills that once populated this Rust Belt city. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry.

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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8