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What I Learned About Coaching After Losing the Ability to Speak

Harvard Business Review

Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm. He wanted to advance in his career, but he thought his stormy relationship with his boss was holding him back. Clients consistently tell me that written dialogue makes it easier to be candid about what they’re grappling with.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

Reverse mentoring — in which younger staff members share their knowledge of new technology with a more established staff member — can also be effective. Find time to reflect Strategic leaders are skilled in what organizational theorists Chris Argyris and Donald Schön called “double-loop learning.”