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Didn't See It Coming

Leading Blog

I just assume I’m better, smarter, or wiser or that I have greater emotional intelligence than others. That gap is a factor of how fast things change relative to you. You defeat it by continuouslychanging, learning, and evolving. Change staves off irrelevance.” Get radical about change.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates lamented in 2011 that, “There is a risk over time of developing a cadre of military leaders that … have less and less in common with the people they are sworn to defend.”

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite the fact that billions are spent every year on leadership development. Part of the problem: Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the type of leadership we need. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.