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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.

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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.