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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

In short, Blue was an exemplar of those institutions that host members temporarily yet promise to transform them permanently, developing the kind of leaders that people want to become and other companies want to hire. Depending on where the market is heading and the trends we see in business, I am very open to different things.

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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve participated in a training or development program in the past two decades, chances are you took an assessment designed to increase self-awareness. Yet in talent development practice, companies spend millions of dollars and countless hours every year on self-reported assessments that only target self-knowledge.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. Devices of all kinds have gone from advertising, branding, and marketing media to promotional platforms. There will be a Farmville counterpart or equivalent that becomes a welcome teaching and/or business simulation and learning tool in the enterprise.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

Books are great to foster intellectual understanding but are not interactive and do not reflect the reality of busy schedules and declining attention spans. And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. Live pilots are highly realistic but costly, time consuming and risky.