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Leadership Irony: To Accomplish More, Do Less

Great Leadership By Dan

A few years ago, I was asked to facilitate a leadership retreat for a tech company. On the agenda, was a business simulation that was akin to an outdoor scavenger hunt. They were going to stay together as a group and use their collective brain power to solve the clues. What if incessant doing keeps us from greatness?

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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. Here’s a sampling of real leadership development programs being offered today: 1.

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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. We can’t simply think our way out of a habit.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

It is a promise of transformation — that a stint at the organization will change your substance and value, not just your leadership style, in ways that will outlast your tenure in it. In Search of Portable Leadership. The pursuit of portability (cloaked as leadership) took two different forms.