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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers: Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference

Marshall Goldsmith

Knowledge workers can be defined as people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do. Many knowledge workers have years of education and experience in training for their positions, yet have almost no training in how to effectively influence decision makers. Even worse, don’t say, “those fools told me to tell you”.

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Why I Decided to Rethink Hiring Smart People

Harvard Business Review

Chris Argyris' " Teaching Smart People How To Learn " utterly changed the way I thought about management. Then I read "Teaching Smart People How To Learn," which argued trenchantly and compellingly that really smart people have the hardest time learning. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

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How to Act Quickly Without Sacrificing Critical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

In my work, coaching leaders at every level through a variety of management dilemmas, I’ve developed three strategies to practice reflective urgency: Diagnose your urgency trap. This was true for Marcus, a senior leader who developed a habit of obsessing over administrative tasks.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

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What I Learned About Coaching After Losing the Ability to Speak

Harvard Business Review

But I still loved my work and needed to stay active, and my clients were open to trying a new approach, so I began managing my coaching relationships exclusively through written dialogue in instant messages, emails, and other electronic documents. My clients and I were skeptical at best about how it would go. How to Do It.

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Your Team Needs an Intervention

Harvard Business Review

Straight out of Argyris''s classic HBR article about why smart people can''t learn," this room is full of people skilled in all elements of leadership except collaborative work and unfamiliar with the messiness of honest, open-ended discussion. Talent management' Participants learn genuine collaboration while tackling the task at hand.

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