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April 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the April 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. Jesse Lyn Stoner of the Seapoint Center provided Collaboration Does Not Require Consensus. Jesse summarized: “Pushing for consensus when it’s not needed actually makes collaboration more difficult. Find Jim on Twitter at @72keys.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women--Workbook Edition--Paperback .

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How to Employ Leadership Fundamentals…or Falter

Strategy Driven

Team meetings, user advisory boards and a consensus approach might take a little time, but a plan concocted in a closet and then jammed down everyone's throat didn't work, did it? Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Collaborate with your people AND your user community. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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How We Reorganized Instagram’s Engineering Team While Quadrupling Its Size

Harvard Business Review

When I joined Instagram in 2015 as head of engineering, the company had been part of Facebook for three years. The engineering department needed better organization and management, and its employees were craving more career development. This prevented design by committee while we were building consensus.

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The Time-Consuming Activities That Stall Women’s Careers

Harvard Business Review

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that women’s household responsibilities are taking time away from their career development. A 2015 study from Skillsoft and Eudemonia noted that “women’s time in the office may also be siphoned away from the activities that help people advance.”

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

There is general consensus that a major solution lies in better managing and preventing adult chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure. In adult care, CMS announced in 2015 ambitious value-based payment goals for Medicare, which were achieved 11 months ahead of schedule. Lauri Rotko/Folio Images/Getty Images.