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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. Forget the strategy.

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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

If you’ve participated in a training or development program in the past two decades, chances are you took an assessment designed to increase self-awareness. ” Research shows that multiple strategies can be brought to bear.

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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 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. And its participants were the kind of accomplished, ambitious, and mobile managers for which companies wage talent wars.