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Decoding leadership: What
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Why leadership-development
programs fail
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Getting beyond the BS of
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Leaders who do well on this dimension typically base their decisions on sound analysis and avoid the many biases to which decisions are prone
Seeking different perspectives
Seek
Leaders with this trait emphasize the importance of efficiency and productivity and prioritize the highest-value work
Operating with a strong results orientation
Operate
Deceptively difficult to get right, this is the key to making good decisions
Solving problems effectively
Solve
Leaders who show a sincere interest in those around them build trust and inspire and help colleagues to overcome challenges
Supporting others
Support
Seek
Operate
Solve
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Decoding leadership: What really matters
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Want to cut through the BS? McKinsey found that 4 of 20 behaviors explain 89 percent of the variance between strong and weak leaders.
What matters
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Why leadership-development programs fail
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Yet leadership development, a perennial concern, remains top of the pile among planned HR priorities.
Priorities
53
Strategic workforce planning
55
Talent acquisition and retention
65
Leadership development and succession management
Top three current and/or future priorities, % of HR professionals
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
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This consuming interest in leadership has spawned a plethora of books, blogs, TED talks, and commentary [that] are often wonderfully disconnected from organizational reality
and, as a consequence, useless for sparking improvement.”
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Getting beyond the BS of leadership literature
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Advice on leadership seldom provides useful guidance about the skills and behavior needed to get things done. No wonder Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is calling “BS.”
BS in leadership
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What skills and behaviors make a good leader effective? Here are the traits that matter.
Decoding leadership
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