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Lead Change Blog - Untitled Article

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development SmartBlog for Leadership [link] A Department of Labor report on the glass ceiling noted that “what’s important [in organizations] is comfort, chemistry, and collaboration.” Connect with Jane on her LeadBIG blog , Braithwaite Innovation Group or @thehrgoddess on Twitter.

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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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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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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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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. Turning one into the other requires, above all, close attention to fundamental human dynamics.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.

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What I Learned from My TED Talk

Harvard Business Review

Instead of perfection and getting it right the first time, innovation can be continuous, and core rather than episodic. because innovation and creativity are rarely about doing more of the same. So how does one unlearn? To unlearn, we need to get good at seeing and naming those ways. We have to be willing to reinvent.