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Leadership Skills for Building a Learning Culture

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In her research, Herminia Ibarra of London Business School identified five critical leadership skills that organizations should prioritize in order to build a culture of adaptability and learning. How do leaders go about creating a culture of learning and adaptability?

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4 Skills Great Innovators Share by Greg Satell

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In this context, I read a brilliant post (with some great examples) from Greg Satell about 4 skills that all great innovators share. I highly recommend you read the full post and here is a quick sketch note summary of key skills. Greg supports these skills in his post with excellent examples to make sense of it all.

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Effective Management: 5 Critical Skill Areas

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Managing effectively is not just one skill, but a mix of different skills. Have you seen a manager who is highly skilled in technical areas but lacks empathy for others? It is a combination of different kinds of intelligence we have as human beings, which makes it an art and a craft. Or the one [.]

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Hidden Strengths – Unleashing The Leadership Skills You Already Have

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About 70% of our skills fall in this hidden space where we are neither excelling nor failing. Our natural strengths are an intersection between our talents, knowledge and skills. However, the possibility of having natural strengths is only to an extent of 20%, i.e. your top 20% of skills.

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Skills For Future Success in a Disruptive World of Work

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Even if we don’t think too much about what happens over a long frame of time, we can still agree that what bought us here (technical skills, expertise etc) may not be sufficient to take us towards success in a volatile future. What skills do we need more of as we head into future? I read an interesting (and long) post by Janna Q.

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Building a Culture of Adaptability

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It’s not so much a skill as a meta-skill—learning how to learn and being conscious of when to put that learner’s mind into action. In this context, I read a fantastic article by McKinsey titled “ Future proof: Solving the ‘adaptability paradox’ for the long term ” with great interest (HT to Helen Bevan for sharing it).

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Enabling Growth: Promotions Are So Yesterday

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What skills can you build to complement and elevate your technical skills?” What areas are you truly passionate about where you can and want to make a bigger difference with your current/new skill set? Jay applied for that role – a sharp turn from his current profile and past skills.

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