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Sage Advice For The First-Time Leader

Terry Starbucker

There are so many things that you can’t find in any school textbooks, case studies, business simulations, best-selling leadership books, podcasts, and any other outside source in your pre-leadership world that will make the difference on whether you achieve your professional dreams. That’s right, learn how to fail.

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Leadership Irony: To Accomplish More, Do Less

Great Leadership By Dan

On the agenda, was a business simulation that was akin to an outdoor scavenger hunt. She is a sought-after leadership speaker and educator, serving diverse organizations around the world. Is that possible? Here is a story that illustrates what I mean.

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GC33: Playing a Better Game of Business | with Simcha Gluck of FreshBiz

Engaging Leader

For one growing company, they not only have created a game that tens of thousands of people have played, they are changing the overall “game” of business itself — to transform corporate culture, education, and entrepreneurship.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this. We required the educational equivalent of Sherpas, people able to carry part of the load in order to guide participants toward their personal and organizational summits.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

There will be a Farmville counterpart or equivalent that becomes a welcome teaching and/or business simulation and learning tool in the enterprise. No matter which way a CEO turns, she faces the spectre and shadow of increased government regulation and/or oversight.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

We think that the next generation strategy apps will finally be able to prove a real business case. Just consider some the advantages games have over more traditional approaches in strategy education. Live pilots are highly realistic but costly, time consuming and risky.