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Best of the Web Leadership Articles

Michael Lee Stallard

Here’s what Jason wrote: For the uninitiated, the Leadership Development Carnival is collection of blog posts, normally maintained by Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership by Dan , about leadership development. From Amy Wilson: Why Business Leaders Should Conduct Talent Reviews. developing social capital.

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Complimentary Resource – Talent Management Helps Small Companies Make Big Moves

Strategy Driven

To move up the business maturity curve, small companies need big ambitions. These companies also need to move up the HR maturity curve and become more process-oriented. Introduce new products: Hire better, develop faster and retain your best employees by creating a climate that allows innovation to flourish.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

The business absolutely needs energetic and emotionally mature leaders for it to prosper. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Professional development plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Business development.

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Breaking the Rules

You're Not the Boss of Me

It lacks maturity and I hazard to say, increases, rather than diminishes, the need for more rules. And yet, in my growing, (ahem), maturity I really see the need to continually question rules that make no sense to me. In fact, they are so convinced of this, they see no point in learning them in the first place. What do you think?

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Exploring Shared Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

Shared leadership includes a level of maturity that to me transcends that kind of practice and focuses instead on tangible outcomes. I think we all know really, that the amount of time one occupies a chair in an office is not a reliable indicator of what one is producing. So that’s it for now… over to you.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy?

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business Review

Consider a large home energy provider in a mature, commoditized market where deregulation is driving down revenue and profit. Simultaneously, sales managers went through a series of development sessions to develop their coaching skills. But good planning and proper leadership support can help.