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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.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

We think that the next generation strategy apps will finally be able to prove a real business case. Just consider some the advantages games have over more traditional approaches in strategy education. Many strategy games and simulations we use today have their origin in the military sphere.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Participants are taken out of their day-to-day workplaces to be inspired by expert faculty, work on case studies, receive personal feedback, and take away the latest leadership thinking (and badges for their résumés). Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

If you're not running an innovative innovation contest to invite participation and build brand, then you're reacting to your competitor's competition. There will be a Farmville counterpart or equivalent that becomes a welcome teaching and/or business simulation and learning tool in the enterprise. Who's running it?