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Why leadership-development
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Decoding leadership:
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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.
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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
Yet leadership development, a perennial concern, remains top of the pile among planned HR priorities.
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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.”
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