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Leadership Development is not Supposed to be FUN

Great Leadership By Dan

When it comes to leadership development, I’ve always been a bit of a curmudgeon. Here’s the way I’ve always thought about leadership development: There is no such thing as a natural born leader - it takes a lot of HARD work to become one. In fact, if you’re having too much fun, I doubt you’re really developing.

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Leadership Irony: To Accomplish More, Do Less

Great Leadership By Dan

On the agenda, was a business simulation that was akin to an outdoor scavenger hunt. The participants were divided into small groups and each team was asked to spend a few hours strategizing and developing a plan that would lead to the best and fastest way to find items and “collect” associated winnings. This is different.

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Feeling Ambivalent About Your Boss Hurts Your Performance Even More Than Disliking Them

Harvard Business Review

Developing good relationships is a crucial aspect of leadership. and the rest of the participants were undergraduate students at a UK university who engaged in a business simulation. 3) Sometimes I think my manager would use his/her power to help to solve problems in my work, while at other times I don’t.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. That's right. Contestification. It's easy to marry a WWWabsite with a contest, for example.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

In short, Blue was an exemplar of those institutions that host members temporarily yet promise to transform them permanently, developing the kind of leaders that people want to become and other companies want to hire. The Complications of Developing Portable Leaders. The leadership developed there just might not feel portable enough.