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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Shamis: One of the most gratifying experiences in writing a leadership book is the introspection youallow yourself in the process. Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. And in a competitive marketplace, it cost us dearly.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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Recent Promotion to Management: Leadership Success Case Study

Mike Cardus

Anthony, at 30, was promoted to Director of Finance. 6 months later, after several of his staff had approached the VP of Finance with their concerns, I was brought in to help Anthony meet these challenges: Anthony was showing favoritism to his friends , with whom he used to work and now was managing. Intervention. 1 on 1 Coaching.

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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value.

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Doing Less, Leading More

Harvard Business Review

But when we carry this mindset into our first leadership roles, we confuse doing with leading. Sometimes this transition is obvious and dramatic, such as when we’re promoted and obtain our first direct reports or hire our first employees. ” Leadership'

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Why Boards Get C-Suite Succession So Wrong

Harvard Business Review

New reports from McKinsey and PwC paint a very bleak picture of C-suite succession practices in today’s corporations. Would you hire a surgeon who wasn’t trained in medicine or delegate a major financial investment decision to someone who hadn’t studied finance? Of course not.

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business Review

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. At a managerial level, corporate cultures, impression management, and bosses dodging accountability can all lead to a climate in which supervisees learn to report only the good news. The second is the divergent aspect.