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Preparing business students for managerial roles

Coaching Tip

Although business schools have traditionally excelled at teaching "hard skills" like finance and accounting, those skills become less relevant as an employee ascends the corporate ladder and moves away from crunching numbers to overseeing employees, as companies like Google are discovering.

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Building the next leadership pipeline with short-term executive programs in Top B-schools

HR Digest

A finance expert who wants now to expand into marketing or customer dealings can choose from a myriad of short courses that deal in the same fields. . As people advance in their industry, they may need to develop leadership, finance, or accounting skills, which they can acquire through these EMBAs or short business courses.

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Humility and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

True self-confidence is reflected in a person’s deeds and actions, and not in their ability to boast. While hubris can be a needed trait to call upon at times, to rely solely upon it as the foundation of your leadership style just doesn’t work. True leaders possess a quiet confidence that attracts attention like a magnet.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

My Whole Self To mark My Whole Self day on 13 March, CMI’s head of policy and innovation, Daisy Hooper , explained why managers must acquire the necessary skills to bring out the best in their teams. If you have a question of your own that you’d like answered by a management and leadership expert, drop us a message !

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

How many times over the years have you witnessed otherwise savvy professionals self-destruct because they wouldn’t engage out of a fear of conflict? The only thing worse than what I’ve just described is leadership that doesn’t recognize it and/or does nothing about it. Thanks for sharing your insight Sarah.

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How Your Leadership Has to Change as Your Startup Scales

Harvard Business Review

Many startup CEOs adopt this “visionary entrepreneur” leadership style. So she and her boss agreed to have her lead the development of a pop-up store, which required collaboration with finance, sales, and product teams. That’s not what I had in mind.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Understanding how I related to each of those helped me see what else was possible.