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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. Without going into detail, I can tell you that the group I was assigned to observe and coach post-simulation was convinced their airtight plan would net them the ultimate prize. But a funny thing happened when the simulation started.

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Leadership Development is not Supposed to be FUN

Great Leadership By Dan

Leadership development via a round of golf : “Transforms today’s managers into tomorrow’s leaders by combining experiential leadership development methods with simulation (including a unique business simulation on the golf course!).”.

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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. 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. whether it was good or bad) as well as their emotional experiences at work (i.e.,

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GC33: Playing a Better Game of Business | with Simcha Gluck of FreshBiz

Engaging Leader

For one growing company, they not only have created a game that tens of thousands of people have played, they are changing the overall “game” of business itself — to transform corporate culture, education, and entrepreneurship.

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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

Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this. All can act as powerful experiential catalysts for learning and change. In such experiences the group dynamics at play in the room become the (at-times-uncomfortable) practice arena.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

“It was a really grueling experience,” explained one describing a business simulation, “but in the end the output was excellent. [It] .” Hunters valued and invested in opportunities to practice a variety of skills and different ways of showing up.