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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! favorite, most popular) post from 2012, along with why it was the best. I'd say that's pretty darn efficient leadership development. was the most popular post of 2012 on the Leading in Context Blog. What is Creativity?"

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. This paper is about rethinking the practice of leadership and reforming the way we approach the development of leaders and leadership in our organizations. Unprepared leaders develop work-arounds.

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5 Insights to Managing Chaordic Tension

Leading Blog

Between my research and that experience, I’ve developed some insights into what makes a venture a success or a failure. The important lesson here is that building cognitively diverse teams—who develop respect for and appreciation of their evaluative/ ideator opposites—is a key to success. More on these concepts in insights 4 and 5.

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How Digitalization Makes Every Organization a ‘Tech’ Company

HR Digest

From the period of 2012 to 2017, and there has been an incredible rise in the technology sector of the US job market with a 17% increase. The percentage of tech workers in the energy sector considerably doubled from 2012- 2017, from a minimum of 3.2% Automatic processes bring in more efficiency in an organization.

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9 Lessons from Henry Ford’s $5 Day Decision

Leading Blog

More efficient! The efficiency that was the promise of the assembly line could not be sustained. That’s why Fortune ’s editors named it as the ultimate in their 2012 book The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time. Workers would stay in one place, performing one task. Revolutionary! And, at first, easier on the workers.

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8 Things Collaborative Leaders Know

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

In their 2012 global workforce study, Towers Watson found 46% of workers are not engaged. Through involvement, people develop deeper understanding of the issues and goals and become more committed to implementing decisions. Apparently a lot of leaders don’t understand this. It’s not possible to know all the answers. .

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Management Improvement Carnival – 2013 Edition

QAspire

James is an experienced operations manager who is passionate about improving quality, reduce cost and increase efficiency of operations. Here are 3 posts and snippets that I enjoyed reading so far, and you will too: Executives can’t do it alone, and must be masters of developing people. Management Improvement Carnival: 2012 Edition.