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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. Remarkably, the most consistent area of incompetence pertains to developing leaders. Then, consider: External Development. People leave managers, not companies.

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Increase Workplace Flexibility and Boost Performance

Harvard Business Review

Goldin noted that scientific, medical and technical fields tend to have substitutable work environments, while law, business and finance tend not to. In fact, this is why most flextime arrangements mandate “core hours” for all employees. Mentoring and Development.