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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. Forget the strategy.

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StrategyDriven Professional Podcast Episode 4 – Skills Mismatch: Business Acumen and Strategy Execution

Strategy Driven

Episode 4 – Skills Mismatch: Business Acumen and Strategy Execution explores the importance of acquiring and maintaining business acumen skills as a key component of strategy execution. business acumen skills differences between executives and managers. Additional Information. About the Author.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 46 – Your Leadership Off-Site is Wasting a Lot of People’s Time

Strategy Driven

During our discussion, Dan Parisi, Executive Vice President at BTS, shares with us his insights and illustrative examples regarding: the importance of leadership off-sites to strategy execution. StrategyDriven Professional Podcast Episode 4 – Skills Mismatch: Business Acumen and Strategy Execution.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

And the corporate executive playing games to improve his or her strategy-making skills is still rare. First, there has never been a greater need for companies to learn new ways of doing things in response to a complex and dynamic business environment. Games are testing grounds for strategies. This is unfortunate.

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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve participated in a training or development program in the past two decades, chances are you took an assessment designed to increase self-awareness. Yet in talent development practice, companies spend millions of dollars and countless hours every year on self-reported assessments that only target self-knowledge.

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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 Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

.” Some version of Tanya’s promise — working here today will make you a leader elsewhere tomorrow — is at the center of many companies’ talent management strategies. “It was a really grueling experience,” explained one describing a business simulation, “but in the end the output was excellent.