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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. Forget the strategy. We need better ideas and more strategies, and we also need to keep moving. What if incessant doing keeps us from greatness?

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

Strategy Driven

Episode 46 – Your Leadership Off-Site is Wasting a Lot of People’s Time examines the effectiveness of leadership off-sites today and shares insights on how these events can be reshaped to deliver greater impact. why leadership off-sites are so often a missed opportunity. Additional Information. Consider leaving a comment!

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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

.” 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. In Search of Portable Leadership. The pursuit of portability (cloaked as leadership) took two different forms.