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Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?

Harvard Business

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. Yet stories like the one above about Steve Jobs made us wonder: might there be some hidden benefits to overconfidence in the context of corporate leadership? Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

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As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up

Harvard Business

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. How talent management is changing. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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1 Leadership Assessment Tool You Need to Try

Organizational Talent Consulting

Embracing leadership assessment can build your capacity to navigate complex challenges and steer your team and organization to success. Here is what you need to know about leadership and the five keys to 360-degree assessment success. Why 360-degree assessment matters 360-degree leadership assessment has been around for over 25 years.

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What's Servant Leadership?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Have you ever wondered what servant leadership is? Maybe you already understand the basic concepts but have questions about how servant leadership differs from other leadership styles or if a servant leadership approach is appropriate for your team. For example, consider two employees walking down a hall.

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4 Emerging Leadership Styles and Why You Should Care

Organizational Talent Consulting

Taking action amid economic uncertainty and operating in a digital workplace with an increasingly diverse workforce necessitates leaders to adapt their leadership styles. Here is what you need to know about the similarities and differences in motivations and characteristics behind four emerging 21st-century leadership styles.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business

It was an incredible leadership school for me. Further, our findings suggest that if firms are looking for external talent, looking at which executives have received board appointments in their home firm or at other firms is a strong signal that these leaders have potential. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

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2 Leadership Tactics for Motivating Your Team

Organizational Talent Consulting

But work motivation is not commonly understood and is a growing source of frustration for leaders in a complex employee-driven talent marketplace. Here are two leadership tactics that are proven to create optimal work motivation conditions. Tactic 2: Servant leadership How you lead makes a difference. Empowerment. References.