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Leadership Development is not Supposed to be FUN

Great Leadership By Dan

Leadership development via a round of golf : “Transforms today’s managers into tomorrow’s leaders by combining experiential leadership development methods with simulation (including a unique business simulation on the golf course!).”. Here’s a sampling of real leadership development programs being offered today: 1.

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Feeling Ambivalent About Your Boss Hurts Your Performance Even More Than Disliking Them

Harvard Business Review

In our research , recently published in the Journal of Management, we set out to explore the effects of having an ambivalent relationship with one’s leader. and the rest of the participants were undergraduate students at a UK university who engaged in a business simulation. whether they were positive or negative).

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GC33: Playing a Better Game of Business | with Simcha Gluck of FreshBiz

Engaging Leader

For one growing company, they not only have created a game that tens of thousands of people have played, they are changing the overall “game” of business itself — to transform corporate culture, education, and entrepreneurship.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. Advertising will take a backseat to promotional offers as retailers and brand managers alike collectively decide that branding a promotion matters just as much as promoting a brand. That's right.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

How talent management is changing. Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this. All can act as powerful experiential catalysts for learning and change. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

I met Tanya years ago, at a global corporation where she led a business unit and enjoyed a reputation as a formidable mentor. Jennifer and I set out to answer these questions, together with Jack Wood at CEIBS, in a study of young managers’ experiences at an international business school that we shall call “Blue.”