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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies. State of the Stagnation Address from a Learning-Impaired Leader Now, here I was five years later, watching the CEO deliver a presentation to his company’s managers and head office support people.

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Strategies to Create a Positive Working Environment

HR Digest

Offering flexible seating options and designated collaboration spaces to encourage teamwork and creativity. Remote Workplaces For employees who work from home, organizations can support their well-being by providing a stipend for home office equipment and resources on ergonomic safety.

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Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”

Harvard Business Review

You might espouse being a learning organization that develops people, but then not give people the time to actually take classes or learn on the job (system-behaviors gap). For example, if I saw someone exemplifying the value of “teamwork,” what would she be doing? How, then, do we repair a flagging culture?

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

The SEALs leadership recognized that technical excellence—better shooting and better shots—didn’t go nearly far enough in addressing the complex environments and demands that would be made upon sniper teams in wartime deployments in multiple theaters. This was a precarious time. The post-9/11 environment demanded it.

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Managers Aren’t Doing Enough to Train Employees for the Future

Harvard Business Review

They remind us that we’ve been here before and that, rather than simply increasing efficiency and cutting costs, emerging technologies can be used to augment our work and raise the quality of life for the population as a whole. Just 8% report having the opportunity to develop necessary leadership and management skills.