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Agile leadership: what it is and how to get it

Persuasive Powerhouse

. Armed with a degree in biology I started my career as a bench biologist, but the route from there to where I am now is quite circuitous. All of my career moves were of my own choosing. I was willing to risk a career for the ability to continue learning in far-ranging business arenas. Take on unusual assignments.

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Improving Leadership Bench Strength

N2Growth Blog

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. How do they affect Leadership? First, leadership is more complex.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A. In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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Tech-Savvy Youth and the Future of C-Suite Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Like most business leadership roles, the C-suite isn’t exempt from this shift. While the C-Suite has stepped up and embraced technology and undergone considerable change, how are today’s C-Suite leaders adapting to multigenerational leadership, coupled with developing future leaders for a C-Suite role they know little about?

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Leadership & Change

N2Growth Blog

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Leadership is about hope. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large.

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Scaling Leadership

Leading Blog

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.