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When is it OK NOT to Develop? Hint: Never.

Great Leadership By Dan

This post first appeared in SmartBrief on Leadership : Here’s a question I often get from managers: “I have employees that don’t want to be developed. In today’s hypercompetitive, white-water, VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) business environment, if you are not growing you are dying. Probably not.

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

And, according to CTI’s recent research into women in science, engineering, and technology , women in these male-dominated industries feel they have to change the way they communicate, dress, and behave in meetings to survive in a testosterone-suffused environment. Diversity Managing yourself'

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. In 2011 the board selected as the new CEO one of its own members, Heinrich Hiesinger, a Siemens executive with experience supplying technology to many industries. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.”

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The 4 Types of Project Manager

Harvard Business Review

Your organization’s growth opportunities fall into four different categories, and in order to develop your business in a commercially sustainable manner, you need four specific types of project manager to pursue them. Employees in this unit seek to solve big problems using breakthrough technologies and radical solutions.