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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. As one person noted in her after-action review, “By doing our experiment at one site instead of implementing at all 30 of them at once, it took the pressure off.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

The interests of employees and stockholders had become one, in much the same way Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones found it working at John Lewis today, in their 2013 article “ Creating the Best Workplace on Earth.”. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail.

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Making Virtual Teams Work: Ten Basic Principles

Harvard Business Review

On June 10, 2013, I launched a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. Then periodically do "after-action reviews" to evaluate how things are going and identify process adjustments and training needs. I had one face-to-face meeting with the team lead for the technology development this past December.".

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