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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. The idea that the "cream will rise to the top" is too often more than offset by the Dunning-Kruger effect; and the real leader's highmindedness will be viewed as a threat to the status quo.

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How to Manage Biased People

Harvard Business Review

Take the recent case of JC Penney, which hired and abruptly fired its CEO, Ron Johnson , after the major changes he instituted took the company from bad to worse. Leaders should recognize that the most common employee goals are more personal in nature: They want job security, good compensation, career progression, etc.