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Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

The Center For Leadership Studies

Foundational Research The Situational Leadership ® Model is anchored by a foundation of timeless, pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. It is difficult to imagine a comprehensive leadership development curriculum that did not include the Situational Leadership ® Model. Do these managers exist?

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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. In some cases, these decision makers may be immediate or upper managers – in other cases they may be peers or cross-organizational colleagues. If you are, refuse to do it and immediately let upper management know of your concerns.

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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. They are so very smart that they are also very "brittle," to use Argyris's descriptor. It has made me better at what I do — my thanks to Chris Argyris and "Teaching Smart People How to Learn.".

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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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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Townes, and Henry L.