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Transcending Skill (A Mastering Leadership Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

Leadership Competencies. These are the competencies required for a leader to be successful in his or her role. Certain core competencies strongly correlate with effective leadership. Adams (Wiley, 2015). We describe this as the outside game of leadership. Leadership Consciousness. Anderson and William A.

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Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the April 2015 Issue

Harvard Business Review

Here’s the winning caption: “Innovation may not be a core competency at Franklin Electric.” .” Patrick Hardin. And congratulations to our April caption contest winner, Robert Rak of Bridgewater, New Jersey. ” Cartoonist: Paula Pratt. NEW CAPTION CONTEST.

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The End of Expertise

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. What are our core-competencies?), This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 5-6, 2015 in Vienna. Expertise providers are finding that the models that they have long relied upon (e.g.,

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Research: Business School Really Does Influence How Students Make Decisions Later On

Harvard Business Review

Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. corporations from 1985 to 2015. Our research sought to explain why the decline in corporate diversifications among U.S.

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Leading Across Cultures Is More Complicated for Women

Harvard Business Review

This “pivoting” among stakeholders is what our 2015 study of leaders and rising talent in 11 markets (Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the U.S.) reveals to be a core competency of global executives.

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The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

Harvard Business Review

The “fissured workplace” — where firms focus on their core competencies and contract out everything else — results in low pay, few benefits, and job insecurity for workers. in 2005 to 15.8%

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5 Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work

Harvard Business Review

At Wisdom Labs, we’ve found that implementing multimodal learning and skill development solutions — including a combination of mobile learning, onsite training, webinars, and peer-to-peer learning networks promotes the greatest chance for mindfulness to become a core competency within an organization.

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