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Is Leadership Development Obsolete?
Is Leadership Development Obsolete? (Click Here)
Over the past week on BecomeALeader, managing editor Loren Gary has been summarizing some of the key point in Harvard Kennedy School professor Barbara Kellerman's new book, The End of Leadership.
Her criticisms of the leadership are pointed indeed, but she is by no means saying that we no longer need leaders-or leadership.
We do need a much more expansive notion of what leadership is all about however. Today, Loren looks at Kellerman's prescription for how leadership should be reimagined.
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Today in Self-Knowledge at BecomeALeader
4 Signs That You Can Trust Your Gut
4 Signs That You Can Trust Your Gut (Click Here)
We're constantly reminding ourselves that we need to trust our gut.
Research at the intersection of neurology and decision science is teaching us something a little different: our gut instincts can indeed represent a sound shortcut that gives us access to a wealth of accumulated and synthesized experience, but they are also subject to hidden biases.
Today on BecomeALeader we're featuring a knowledge asset that comes from the McKinsey Quarterly (you have to register in order to read the entire article, by the way, but it's free.)
In it authors Andrew Campbell and Jo Whitehead outline four key tests that, when met,provide the assurance that your gut instincts are not misleading you. The four tests are well worth keeping close at hand because they're likely to prove useful several times a week.
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Today in Operational Acumen at BecomeALeader
Do You Have a Toolkit for Social Innovation?
Do You Have a Toolkit for Social Innovation? (Click Here)
Looking for advice and resources to help guide your efforts to design innovations that improve our common life?
Today's featured knowledge asset on BecomeALeader--the Innovator's Toolkit of the Project on Social Innovation's website--is a great place to get started.
There are plenty of guides and resources available to social entrepreneurs, but what sets Innovator's Toolkit apart is the broad focus of its tools and suggestions: they relate to a dozen civic actions, and help you understand, navigate and transform the broader landscape of social innovation.
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Today in Big Ideas at BecomeALeader
12 Assumptions that Hold Back Leadership Development
12 Assumptions That Hold Back Leadership Development (Click)
Today on BecomeALeader, managing editor Loren Gary takes a deeper look at some of the criticisms leveled at the leadership development industry.
He highlights 12 assumptions that Barbara Kellerman, author of The End of Leadership, believes do the industry a disservice.
Kellerman's critique provides useful insight into the industry's blind spots, which in turn can help us "expand our conception of what constitutes a leadership curriculum," she writes.
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Today in Big Ideas at BecomeALeader
Why You Too Should Spend $60 Billion Differently
Why You Too Should Spend $60 Billion Differently (Click)
What's wrong with leadership development as it's currently practiced?
Today on BecomeALeader, managing editor Loren Gary returns to this topic, which we highlighted earlier in the week, by summarizing some of the arguments made in The End of Leadership, a new book by Harvard Kennedy School professor Barbara Kellerman.
Serving the needs of the private sector, she maintains, which is "driven by the pressure to make a profit," and "particularly preoccupied with the performance of leaders and managers," has caused the leadership development industry to diminish the importance not only of context but also of the continually shifting dynamics between leaders and followers.
For example, the requirements of a particular initiative will call for one individual to assume a leadership role during one phase of the work, but a followership role in a subsequent phase. But this is something that's rarely discussed in the literature.
Check out BecomeALeader today to learn more about how we can improve the way that we conceive and go about leadership development.
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Today in Big Ideas at BecomeALeader
When the Need for Social Innovation is Great
When the Need for Social Innovation is Great (Click Here)
The Washington Post recently ran an editorial that emphasized the relative success that American immigration policy makers have had relative to their western European counterparts.
The number of babies born in the United States to minority parents is now over 50% of the annual total: our roving reporter returns from his trip to the southern borders where the action is with some fascinating insights into immigration progress and problems.
Today on BecomeALeader, managing editor Loren Gary asks some probing questions about the immigrant experience, and what it means now for the country and populations working to integrate.
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