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John Boudreau on “Outside-the-Box Leadership Development”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Boudreau for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * How can companies balance cost pressures with the need to [.].

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McKinsey & Company’s Top Ten Articles in 2014

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Why leadership-development programs fail Sidestepping four common mistakes can help companies develop stronger and more capable leaders, save time and money, and boost morale. McKinsey & Company has just announced the ten articles that were most popular with mckinsey.com readers in 2014.

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Executive Level Book Synopsis Presentations – Maybe just what your Leadership Team(s) could use

First Friday Book Synopsis

How can this be—all this failure—after the thousands of leadership books, talks, blogs, classes, and leadership-development programs seeking to make leaders more effective? How can this be, after more than a century of research seeking to figure out how to select better leaders? 


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Leaders are “Developable” – As Are the People They Lead ; A Story about Leadership (and Employee) Development

First Friday Book Synopsis

This is a short, but wonderful story about leadership development. Take all the words you know – mentoring, coaching; training – and it all boils down to this. A person at work needs to be more… more productive, take more initiative, be more responsible, be more creative, be more diligent… And, to get there, someone […].

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Stewart D. Friedman on “Leading the Life You Want”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

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In 2001, he concluded a two-year assignment (while on academic leave) at Ford Motor Company, as the senior executive for leadership development. Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life was published in 2008. In 1984, Stew Friedman joined Wharton, where he is the Practice Professor of Management.

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Self-Awareness; Self-Motivation; Self-Development – It Has to Come From Within (insight from Daniel Pink, Daniel Goleman, and Kouzes & Posner)

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We saw, over and over again, that leadership doesn’t depend on mystical qualities or inborn gifts but rather on the capacity of individuals to know themselves, their strengths, and their weaknesses, and to learn from the feedback they get in their daily lives – in short, their capacity for self-improvement. Randy''s blog entries'

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Stewart D. Friedman on “Leading the Life You Want”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

In 2001, he concluded a two-year assignment (while on academic leave) at Ford Motor Company, as the senior executive for leadership development. Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life was published in 2008. In 1984, Stew Friedman joined Wharton, where he is the Practice Professor of Management.