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

HR Digest

Seasoned executives in large corporations may have loads of experience in management, but there are many aspects of business that need to be honed constantly to make it to the top of the ladder. A good way of doing that is through some executive business programs on offer in almost all major business management colleges.

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Rapid Realignment Teaches Leaders How To Adapt And Stay Focused

Eric Jacobson

Labovitz and Victor Rosansky , share throughout the book a series of case studies from Federal Express , Quest Diagnostics , Navy Hospital at Camp Pendleton , Farmington Savings Bank and a host of other organizations who have stepped up to the challenge of rapid realignment. The authors, Dr. George H.

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MBAs Should Take Competency Tests

Harvard Business Review

It's great to see students get their shoes dusty with real-world forays, but I fear they are losing the ability to read a balance sheet or parse the kind of complex data they'd get in case-study coursework. What doesn't seem to count is experience in studying or, better yet, managing organizations in complex situations.

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Be a Better Global Collaborator

Harvard Business Review

While this used to be the case primarily for country managers and those taking on overseas assignments, it now applies to all managers. Smart managers at smart companies are usually somewhat prepared for cross-cultural collaboration. You can also use technology to begin "experiencing" the new culture while still at home.

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

But that’s exactly why it would be a mistake to look past organizational behavior and culture at GM: It is utterly inevitable that things will go wrong, according to Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson. The manager’s answer: “I don’t want to be a Chicken Little about this.”

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How to Manage Remote Direct Reports

Harvard Business Review

Geographically dispersed teams are increasingly common in the modern workplace — perhaps you’re based in your company’s New York headquarters and your team works out of offices in Denver and Charlotte or maybe you’re in San Francisco and manage telecommuters in LA and a group of developers in Minsk. Treat them as such.”

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How to Negotiate Your Parental Leave

Harvard Business Review

There are a lot of informal negotiations that go on with supervisors," agrees Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School and the author of Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty. Start with your manager. Framing your request as an exception to the policy can make some managers uncomfortable.

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