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

Great Leadership By Dan

In today’s hypercompetitive, white-water, VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) business environment, if you are not growing you are dying. Probably not. Standing still is not an option. Continuous improvement is a business imperative, and quite frankly, a condition of employment.

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Five Ways to Project Credibility in an Instant

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Cara Hale Alter: You’re a smart and skilled leader with powerful potential. Still, in today’s high-speed, hypercompetitive business world, when key opportunities knock, you have little time to make a big impression. The power of this one skill—to literally be levelheaded—can be transformative.

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U.S. Manufacturers Are Hurting Themselves by the Way They Hire

Harvard Business Review

Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn't take much to kill this momentum and put the U.S. A number of automated pre-employment assessment methods are available that include sophisticated simulations designed to measure the most relevant skills for working on a technology-driven production line.

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How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

In another provocative study , researchers investigated how companies could use online role-playing games like "World of Warcraft" and "EverQuest" to build leadership and teamwork skills. Many skills are difficult to train and develop. In these games, members must continually do what's best for the team. Train for collaboration.

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Seven Problems a Recovery Won't Fix

Harvard Business Review

Mere recovery probably won't do much to derail this trend, because the rise of McJobs has deeper causes: offshoring, skills gaps, undereducation, regulatory deficits, our own bottomless appetite for McStuff. Insecurity.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Keeping a firms asset base up to date and flexible is an important way to ensure that “legacy” doesn’t turn into a liability in today’s hypercompetitive environment.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

An organization that grew up producing newspapers, for instance, not only lacks key skills to build a digital content company but also might actively resist embracing the new in order to protect the business it knows and loves. Theodor Weimer , Country Chairman at UniCredit. That doesn’t work for a host of practical reasons.