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Creating Purposeful Leadership Development Training Programs

The Regis Company

Despite building the first technology-enabled, web-based business simulation platform that was optimized for developing forward-thinking leaders, this approach still resulted in the same problem — people knew a lot but could do little. Why is this important?

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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. Given the uncertainty in their industry, it was impossible for senior management to know what their long-term business strategy or organizational model would look like.

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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] For an individual, the appellation can serve as protection against the uncertainty of contemporary careers, and as preparation for the fluidity of labor markets.