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How Much Do You Invest in Leadership Development?

Lead Change Blog

While prolonging life is an excellent outcome, few realise that this also increases the demand for longer-term support services, not reduce it. In short, like her, today’s leaders need to be even more flexible and adaptive. Increasingly, leaders exist in a much longer ‘span of control’ network.

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Organizing Syrian Refugees

CEO Blog

We have 8 teams which is a good number for span of control. Education (everything from English skills, schooling to job training), Adjustment, Housing, Transportation and Finance. 3 - Director of Education/Training. This team also looks at the adult training needs for job skills. So how are we doing it?

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

While it’s essential that leaders proactively create contingency plans for the next crisis – identify vulnerable areas, analyze the organization’s state of readiness, provide appropriate staff training, among other important tasks – there is a famous military maxim that says, “Every plan is a good one – until the first shot is fired.”

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

They have to integrate various perspectives and not give algorithms short shrift for lack of understanding them. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Change the mindset from “span of control” to “speed and collaboration.” Tom Watson, Jr.