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May 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the May 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Get Ahead by Speaking Up at Work. If you stay silent, you won’t be noticed, and your career will stall out.” To trigger innovative leadership, we need to be the example. Let’s Get Started.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall. All leaders face adversity at some point in their careers.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

The ability to adapt and learn in new situations, combined with the dedication, commitment and strong work ethic veterans bring to the table, encouraged Korn Ferry Futurestep to more actively recruit veterans for Talent Academy, an intensive training and onboarding program for recruiters at all levels of the organization. All rights reserved.

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How to Prepare the Next Generation for Jobs in the AI Economy

Harvard Business Review

For example, consider how kids are currently interacting with AI and automated technologies: Right now, it might seem magical to tell Siri, “Show me photos of celebrities in orange dresses,” and see a photo of Taylor Swift pop up on a smartphone less than a second later.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

As graduates explain their career choices to family and friends, they will confront the idea that our best and brightest are wasting their talent in an industry that doesn’t do anything worthwhile. But this anti-finance sentiment is detached from the reality of the profession and obscures the promise and peril of a career in finance.

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Why Companies Should Add Class to Their Diversity Discussions

Harvard Business Review

Class-based bias, just like gender- and racial-based biases, can seep into workplace systems and artificially hinder the career success of those groups. Here are some examples of common workplace systems and processes that can get tainted by class-based bias: Hiring, Onboarding, and Culture Fit. For example, what are elite sports?

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