Leadership Skills

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To successfully lead big change initiatives, executives must master a wide range of leadership skills.

Research reveals five lessons that can help executives manage big, complex projects more effectively.

A vision commonly held throughout the organization must begin with the leader’s image of a credible, optimal future state.

The key for managers is less emphasis on how they rate employees and more on how they talk about performance improvement.

The future belongs to those who possess flexible talents, nerve, and personal speed.

To inspire company builders, entrepreneurship education needs a common language and apprenticeships.

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When you manage complex problems as if they’re complicated, you’re setting your company up to fail.

Some companies are using assessment tools to help identify employees with leadership potential.

Companies want managers to help employees develop and improve — but many managers don’t know how.

Kaiser Permanente’s CEO says leaders need to ask how well employees’ intelligence is put to work.

Western multinationals looking for East Asian leaders may need to explore their cultural biases.

Most leadership development programs focus on competencies but fail to view leaders as individuals.

As firms work with increasingly diverse arrays of people, they need to adopt leadership standards that cross geographies.

Closely observing how work is done in your business can yield many opportunities for improvements.

Articulating what problem you’re trying to solve is an important (and underrated) management skill.

Companies should blend the power of computers with insights into human decision making.

Many executives try to ignore negative emotions in the workplace, but that tactic can be costly.

There’s value in looking at good processes to figure out what works.