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28 Leadership Development Recommendations for your Individual Development Plan

Great Leadership By Dan

Everyone can improve their coaching, exactly what form "improve coaching" takes could vary for every individual: be more encouraging, be more challenging, focus on building an understanding of the organization as a system, spend more time coaching - less time reading and writing reports, etc. Jennifer V.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

These principles represent a combination of organizational systems and individual capabilities — the hardware and software of transformation. But only when you implement all of them together, as a single system, will they enable you to attract, develop, and retain the strategic leaders who’ve eluded you thus far.

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Your Team Needs an Intervention

Harvard Business Review

Six top executives are midway through a 12-week assignment: Figure out how thousands of employees in their $8 billion company can absorb major changes—three acquisitions, a new global IT system, and a mandate to double revenue in three years—in minimal time. I don''t believe those teams spring up because we want them.

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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. Optimization therefore made a lot of sense.

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Prevent Conflicting Messages from Confusing Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Organizations today routinely tell people to “Be empowered and innovative. Chris Argyris has described the sequence of events that happens when you fail to do so: Organizations craft messages that contain ambiguities or inconsistencies. Take risks;” while demanding at the same time “Make plan, and deliver on all your commitments.”

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