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The 5 Elements of a Strong Leadership Pipeline

Harvard Business Review

Right now, for example, the hot topic is “digital leadership” — driving organizations to be more innovative, iterative, and collaborative as they develop digital strategies to disrupt or transform their current business. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business Review

product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Another tried generating operational efficiencies through a different supply chain control tower process. Someone else designed an experiment to get a plant operation down to zero accidents. For example, one participant focused on creating a new pricing scheme.

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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

In an organizational setting this applies equally, where people empower themselves through creativity, innovation and superior customer service.”. Examples: an accounting manager could shadow HR for a day or an person in operations could learn more about the sales process. Regular review and after-action review.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. Army uses after-action reviews to change course, as the Pascale article explains in excellent detail. Rucci , Steven P.

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Managing On-Demand Talent

Harvard Business Review

” While cost is clearly a consideration, managers describe the primary benefits of agile talent as increasing flexibility, speed, and innovation. Our research, which is the basis for our new book Agile Talent , found that over half executives report increasing their use of outside expertise and sourcing talent from “the cloud.”