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Building the next leadership pipeline with short-term executive programs in Top B-schools

HR Digest

Considering the busy lifestyles of most of these executives, there are some short-term courses tailored and customized for their needs. A finance expert who wants now to expand into marketing or customer dealings can choose from a myriad of short courses that deal in the same fields. . Cost Factor. Curriculum and Colleges.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. Unfortunately, it also leads many of us wonder if the struggle for career parity is truly worth it.

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The Dark Side of Resilience

Harvard Business Review

Yet there is no indication that people actually act on these attitudes, with job tenure remaining stable over the years despite ubiquitous access to career opportunities and the rise of passive recruitment introduced by the digital revolution. In short, when resilience is driven by self-enhancement, success comes at a high price: denial.

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How the Best Global Employers Convince Workers to Join and Stay

Harvard Business Review

Companies spend a lot of time and money building strong brands to win over customers—but they often fall short when it comes to strengthening their employer reputation to win talent. Some companies are leading the way in terms of targeting their employer brand marketing to the specific talent they’re looking to attract.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

Develop opportunities for experience-based learning The vast majority of professional leadership development is informative as opposed to experiential. Classroom-based training is, after all, typically easier and less expensive to implement; it’s evidence of short-term thinking, rather than long-term investment in the leadership pipeline.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. Sociologists use the term density to describe this property of networks: it quantifies the percentage of people who know each other in a network.

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Authentic Workplaces Don’t Try to Make Everyone the Same

Harvard Business Review

Does your workplace reflect a relative balance of males and females in leadership positions? A healthy range of diversity in terms of age, skin color, religious conviction, culture, or/and sexual orientation? What does the story of a British army recruit’s career have to do with creating an authentic workplace?