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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

That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. There will be a Farmville counterpart or equivalent that becomes a welcome teaching and/or business simulation and learning tool in the enterprise. 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

Less of a traditional academic setting and more of an executive boot camp, Blue’s MBA program only accepted experienced managers and exposed them to heavy doses of assisted reflection (journaling, coaching) and practice (projects in real companies). The Complications of Developing Portable Leaders.