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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor/strategist: Sets or influences strategic direction and important decisions; exercises power on behalf of the organization; prepares future leaders. This type of entrepreneurial mindset is extremely helpful and is very often lacking among full-time employees who don’t have significant market or competitive contact.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Here’s why: “Most organizations see leaders'' as drivers of results - exceeding sales quotas, deepening market share, boosting profits, etc. They know that once internalized, these beliefs and values affect the norms that influence day-to-day actions, determine what’s important, reinforce appropriate behavior, and change attitudes.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail. The results are spectacular. In Jan-Feb 1998, Anthony J.

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Managing On-Demand Talent

Harvard Business Review

Agile talent is a concern for many employees who wonder whether their jobs are now at risk, and a worry for executives who wonder whether their role and influence will be diminished. For traditional organizations, bringing on agile talent creates internal politics. Think of talent as partners, not clients.