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How Leaders Can Develop Their Skills With One Simple Habit

Tanveer Naseer

For most of us, our default mode of operating in the world is to be caught up in our thinking. Perhaps most important for leadership development, we can systematically train to improve both business acumen and emotional intelligence. Mindfulness training may be the most effective tool there is for improving emotional intelligence.

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Why Doesn't HR Lead Change?

Harvard Business Review

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By David Ulrich. Dave Ulrich is considered the #1 most influential international thought leader in HR. In this book, Ulrich lays out the role of the “strategic partner” and challenges HR professionals to define the value they create. By Daniel H.

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

The OnRamp Fellowship operates on a different model. Applicants pay a $250 fee to cover the cost of career development assessments, but those who are selected receive a $125,000 work and training fellowship, plus benefits, for their first year at one of four major law firms: Baker Botts, Cooley, Hogan Lovells, and Sidley Austin.

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” Operations Organizational culture' As a result, organization design is no longer just a big bang event.

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It???s Time to Retool HR, Not Split It

Harvard Business Review

In the The Capitalists Dilemma, Clay Christensen and Derek van Bever suggest that leaders have been trained and socialized to their role as capitalists, and thus come to rely too heavily on familiar and traditional finance principles.

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