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When is it OK NOT to Develop? Hint: Never.

Great Leadership By Dan

This post first appeared in SmartBrief on Leadership : Here’s a question I often get from managers: “I have employees that don’t want to be developed. Development isn’t for everyone, right? I can’t force them to develop if they don’t want to!” They just want to come to work, do their jobs, and go home. Probably not.

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Strategy, Culture, Knowledge Management, Firm Performance: How Are They Linked?

Strategy Driven

Executives that employ corporate strategy can propel knowledge sharing in the company to generate more innovative ideas and solutions for new and demanding issues that come up constantly in our hypercompetitive economic environment. Further, executives have found that corporate culture impacts knowledge management.

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Five Happiness Traps

Leading Blog

Second, hypercompetitiveness in the workplace leaves us empty and unfulfilled, hurts our ability to lead effectively, and makes us no fun to be around. Dealing with these happiness traps begins with a little introspection and learning to manage our emotions/feelings. Breaking Free from the Happiness Traps.

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The 4 Types of Project Manager

Harvard Business Review

Your organization’s growth opportunities fall into four different categories, and in order to develop your business in a commercially sustainable manner, you need four specific types of project manager to pursue them. Will every organization need all four types of employees to sustainably develop and grow their organizations?

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Thomas J. DeLong: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Stomberg Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behavior area at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the Harvard Faculty, DeLong was Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Group, Inc., DeLong is the Philip J.

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How to Gain Credibility When You Have Little Experience

Harvard Business Review

There’s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. One of the best ways to stand out in a corporate setting, even as someone with less work experience, is to develop unique knowledge that makes you a go-to resource for your colleagues and clients.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. ” They Develop a Road Map Before Disruption Takes Hold.