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Sage Advice For The First-Time Leader

Terry Starbucker

There are so many things that you can’t find in any school textbooks, case studies, business simulations, best-selling leadership books, podcasts, and any other outside source in your pre-leadership world that will make the difference on whether you achieve your professional dreams. Listen more than talk. They need to trust you.

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What They Don’t Teach You in Business School: The Commencement Speech I Wish I’d Heard 30 Years Ago

Terry Starbucker

There are so many things that you can’t find in any college textbooks, case studies, or business simulations, that will make the difference on whether you achieve your professional dreams. By becoming a “people person” you’ll pick up another valuable thing that you can’t acquire in school: influence.

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

Harvard Business Review

and the rest of the participants were undergraduate students at a UK university who engaged in a business simulation. More than two-thirds of these were working adults based in India, the UK, and the U.S., We asked them all to rate the degree to which they thought their relationship was ambivalent (see sidebar).

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

People Express, for example, is a business simulator that provides players with a rich inside perspective on starting and managing an airline. In each simulated time period, the player makes strategic decisions and receives feedback from past decisions—on how fast to grow, how to set prices, or how aggressively to advertise.

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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. There will be a Farmville counterpart or equivalent that becomes a welcome teaching and/or business simulation and learning tool in the enterprise. That's right. Contestification.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Over that time, I’ve come to appreciate four factors that lie at the heart of good, practical leadership development: making it experiential; influencing participants’ “being,” not just their “doing”; placing it into its wider, systemic context; and enrolling faculty who act less as experts and more as Sherpas.