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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. After reflecting on this input, each manager was required to carry out at least one safe-to-fail experiment. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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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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