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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization. Influencing skills. Collaborative decision making and problem solving.

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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones. Brown cautions that each engagement with an activist must be treated as unique.

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Most Doctors Have Little or No Management Training, and That’s a Problem

Harvard Business Review

And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business. Yet most doctors in the U.S. Building a Physician Leadership Pipeline.