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Do You Have What It Takes to Help Your Team Be Creative?

Harvard Business Review

McClelland got the ball rolling in the 1970s. I have pushed the competencies approach into several new areas over the years, including parenting , stress management , and even love , but the area where this approach has had the greatest success has been creativity. million in innovative revenue reductions specifically to the training.

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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

Competitors will be recast as allies, as rival companies will have to work together to achieve more complex technical innovations. better equips them to handle the stress of the uneasy chair. But possibly the biggest adjustment for leaders of today is a power shift that is requiring major changes to how they think and work.