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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

This is where he really learned about finance and discovered his strengths. They offer a free course from the real world to help you improve. You will learn new rules for decision making and organizational behavior. His determination and creativity make for a good read. The best executives are made, not born.

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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. NEED FOR EXECUTIVE BUSINESS COURSES. The courses can be used to be more effective managers by leaders and by managers to be better leaders. Cost Factor. The average EMBA grad received a 13.5%

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Four Situational Leadership® Quotes

The Center For Leadership Studies

It has been in active use for over 50 years, and it was created approximately 50 years after the discipline of organizational behavior and leadership development began. Of course, it is! Family challenges (finances, divorce, death, health, etc.) The Situational Leadership ® methodology is a “50 – 50 model.”

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Should You Get an MBA?

Harvard Business Review

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. MBA programs responded by expanding their offerings in areas such as strategy, organizational behavior and leadership. How well-established are these courses?

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What to Do When Your Heart Isn’t in Your Work Anymore

Harvard Business Review

Research by organizational behavior scholars Justin Berg, Jane Dutton, and Amy Wrzesniewski has shown that people can be quite imaginative and effective at reimagining the design of their job in personally meaningful ways. Can you tweak or “renovate” your job? Or do you need to move on?

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Military Leadership Lessons for Training Doctors

Harvard Business Review

To address this gap, the Vanderbilt Department of Otolaryngology developed a 4-year program that consists of selected Naval ROTC leadership topics, public speaking training, a micro-MBA course, and a capstone leadership project on community disease prevention that puts students into leadership roles.

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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

There are the "soft" subjects like leadership and organizational behavior, and the "hard" ones like finance, accounting, and operations. Of course this distinction only makes sense in the classroom. MBA students and their professors tend to divide the world into two separate domains: people and numbers.

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