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How L&D Can Help In Creating A Purpose-Driven Organization

Experience to Lead

Across the corporate world, purpose has found increased interest, and significant efforts are made to clearly define it within leading organizations. Research and interviews with diverse practitioners for our 2021 L&D Report affirm that purpose can powerfully drive value creation. Granted, purpose is no silver bullet.

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How Leaders Can Help Others Influence Them

Harvard Business Review

For example, we assess whether leaders are able to generate compliance with or genuine commitment to their plans. In the 1960s and 1970s, we embraced participative leadership ; in the 1990s, we were lured by the learning organization. More recently, we have focused on the value of Lean, Six Sigma , and diversity.

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

” And as he told me in a recent email exchange, he accomplished this by drawing from many diverse areas outside the military: “We took best practices from teaching, professional sports, and Olympic champions, and we made our course one of the best in the world in a very short period of time…” Webb noted.