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Why do so many leadership development programs fail?

Great Results Team Building

Way back in January 2014, in an issue of McKinsey Quarterly , a group of researchers attempted to answer this question: “Why do so many leadership development programs fail?” ” They summarized their finding into the four main issues that led to a lack of results in most leadership development programs.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Or, maybe you’re focused on personal development and want to find the best content online to help you grow as a leader. of the Center for the Development of Evangelical Leadership @GCTS_Charlotte. Obsessed with community development. Zondervan Author.

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How Thomson Reuters Is Creating a Culture of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. It’s not easy for big companies to innovate.

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Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader

Harvard Business Review

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.". In 1975 I went with my wife Penny to a Transcendental Meditation (TM) Workshop.

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How Our Hotel Used Data to Make Our Laundry Service Glamorous

Harvard Business Review

By diving into the data, we were able to dramatically reduce customer dissatisfaction, increase customer loyalty, and develop new, differentiating service offerings. Figuring Out What Our Customers Wanted. Fashion and clothing were central to the guest experience — much more so than we had realized. Budget also went to education.

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The Making of an Innovation Master

Harvard Business Review

A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". The duo (who are affiliated with Innosight) wrote a great book with Clayton Christensen last year called The Innovator's DNA. These three questions lead to obviously biased selections. Stefan Lindegaard.

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Keeping Work Organized when Your Team Is Fragmented

Harvard Business Review

Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers. The best way to get the team in synch is to assemble the key stakeholders of a process in a multi-day workshop to map the current and future process, identify areas of improvement, and define an implementation plan.