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How to Avoid Your Leadership Gap

Leading Blog

And when there is that gap between how we want to be perceived and how we are actually being perceived, we need to take action. Learning to recognize your leadership gap is the factor that determines your greatness as a leader.” We need to rethink how our behaviors are perceived by those around us. How can I serve you?”

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Young leaders engage in an “action learning” project in which they work on real-life problems facing the firm.

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Innovation Isn’t the Answer to All Your Problems

Harvard Business Review

Run an action-learning program to develop the top leadership team’s ability to confront ambiguity. If an organization tapped into its full innovation potential, perhaps employee engagement and loyalty would increase. What should leaders do to boost their organization’s ability to innovate? Set up a new-growth group.