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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure.

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Why Young Bankers, Lawyers, and Consultants Need Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

Early in your career — whether it’s in banking, law, consulting or accounting — you will discover that all of your colleagues are as smart and hard working as you. Developing EQ is just as pertinent for the recent graduate who is starting out, as it is for the seasoned veteran. EQ is more than charisma or personality.

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Why Leaders Lose Their Way

Harvard Business Review

Farkas, former chairman of giant mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, in April was found guilty for his role in one of the largest bank fraud schemes in American history. Self-reflection: a path to leadership development. Reliable mentors are entirely honest and straight with us, defining reality and developing action plans.

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The Economy of Punishment

Harvard Business Review

We love hearing historical stories about Robin Hood-like men, about bank robbers, pirates and outlaws on the run. So how, as a society, do we develop new instincts towards criminals and what strategies can be effectively employed to reduce the rate of incarceration and the rate of recidivism?

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Stop Trusting Your Instincts

Harvard Business Review

blinking" — derives its power from the expertise that comes from repeated practice, but we have not yet developed proficiency in managing complexity, which is why our intuitions about complex challenges are often deceptive. Intuition — a.k.a.