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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. Dana Theus , from InPower Consulting , says “We talk a lot about "integrity," but most of us don''t understand the true power of it in it''s simplest form. Regular review and after-action review.

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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.

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