Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

As a consequence of accelerating change, the old model of managerial skill development and application is no longer effective. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. How did you develop it?

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 81

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Consultative 100

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

While creating successful teams isn’t as simple as mimicking the processes of emotionally intelligent groups of people, what you can do is create the necessary conditions in which team members can develop their emotional intelligence. Emotional management – leaders are able to maintain their cool.

Emotional Intelligence 100

Emotional Intelligence Team Goleman Self-aware 100

Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

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Influence Gordon Entrepreneur Blog 102

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2012

We all know bad managers — be they ambitious and aggressive, doing whatever it takes to move up the corporate ladder, or the opposite: managers thrust into their position without the skill or the will to do the job properly. I continue to be a little puzzled about why so many managers do such a poor job.

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Management Gordon Welch Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

Yet perfection is an impossible goal. Coupled with research demonstrating the destructive effects of perfectionism on mental health, our findings are also potentially a forewarning for schools, universities, and employers who may find managing the welfare of young people becomes increasingly important. Failure is not weakness.

Stress 11

Stress Gordon Trends Goal 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

A plane developed that way wouldn’t fly. The company begins with a goal, such as safely carrying 250 passengers nonstop from New York to London in under six hours, and follows a disciplined approach to identify the components and subsystems that meet those requirements. No doubt, patients are at risk for more than seven harms.

Health Care 8

Health Care Engineering System Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. The subsequent recasting of business schools 2.0 What can and should we do?

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

Education 8

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

The stated goal: Place the best person in every position. So the CEO had given the HR department a green light to create a new system that would force managers to be brutally honest. After being promoted to VP, he easily wrapped up the project, creating a fairly simple form for managers to fill out. But that had helped Ekdahl.

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Case Study P&L Performance Review Review 11