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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. The participants were divided into small groups and each team was asked to spend a few hours strategizing and developing a plan that would lead to the best and fastest way to find items and “collect” associated winnings.

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Creating Purposeful Leadership Development Training Programs

The Regis Company

Despite building the first technology-enabled, web-based business simulation platform that was optimized for developing forward-thinking leaders, this approach still resulted in the same problem — people knew a lot but could do little. Seems obvious, right? Why is this important?

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Leadership Development Simulations: Friday Top Five

The Regis Company

This week's compilation by The Regis Company brings together articles focused on the topic of leadership development simulations. We’ve rounded up articles on everything from specific instances when simulations should be considered along with the "good" stress that business simulations bring to bring to its participants.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

If you're not running an innovative innovation contest to invite participation and build brand, then you're reacting to your competitor's competition. There will be a Farmville counterpart or equivalent that becomes a welcome teaching and/or business simulation and learning tool in the enterprise. Who's running it?

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Feeling Ambivalent About Your Boss Hurts Your Performance Even More Than Disliking Them

Harvard Business Review

and the rest of the participants were undergraduate students at a UK university who engaged in a business simulation. We conducted three studies in which we surveyed a total of 952 individuals. More than two-thirds of these were working adults based in India, the UK, and the U.S., whether they were positive or negative).

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

And its participants were the kind of accomplished, ambitious, and mobile managers for which companies wage talent wars. One participant offered a telling metaphor of this way of seeing the institution’s value: You can learn to live in a jungle in three ways. We followed 55 such managers for one year.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Participants are taken out of their day-to-day workplaces to be inspired by expert faculty, work on case studies, receive personal feedback, and take away the latest leadership thinking (and badges for their résumés). Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this.