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How to Act Quickly Without Sacrificing Critical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

For example, Jenna was a new manager struggling to adjust to the dueling pressures of delivering her own work, while keeping the team accountable for theirs. The result was that her team felt increasingly micromanaged and less engaged in their contributions. Haruto was the VP of sales for a technology company.

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What I Learned About Coaching After Losing the Ability to Speak

Harvard Business Review

I knew I couldn’t keep facilitating team meetings and giving strategy presentations — staples of the consulting services I had provided for many years. You and Your Team Series. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm. Now clients open up more quickly. Communication.

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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.”