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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

With 58 teams and more than 300 leaders performing in a dynamic and competitive business simulation , we tested the extent to which accurate self-awareness was related to team effectiveness, which was evaluated across a number of business metrics like market share, ROA, customer awareness, productivity, and so forth.

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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. Depending on where the market is heading and the trends we see in business, I am very open to different things.