January 10, 2016 by Ken Nowack
“It’s easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that’s the hard part.” Casey Stengel One of the things we have done for the last 20 years is to identify potential future leaders for organizations using developmental assessment centers ((Nowack, K. (1997). Congruence Between Self and Other Ratings and Assessment Center Performance. Journal […]
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January 8, 2016 by Wally Bock
Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about the future of leadership development and HR. That seemed appropriate for the first week […]
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January 6, 2016 by Wally Bock
Dan McCarthy’s New Year’s Leadership Development Goals for 2016 For my money, there’s no one who does a better job of writing about leadership development than Dan. He’s spent a career at it. Now he’s the director of Executive Development Programs at the University of New Hampshire. He’s also in charge of the Management & […]
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January 1, 2016 by Wally Bock
Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about setting development goals for 2016, why leadership development fails, how leadership development is crucial […]
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December 30, 2015 by Wally Bock
Leadership development is a big, important thing. The effectiveness and often the fate of a company or a team hinges on how well the leader does his or her job. But the most effective leaders do a lot of little things that don’t get much publicity at all. I started thinking about this when I […]
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December 27, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“People are saying that I’m an alcoholic, and that’s not true, because I only drink when I work, and I’m a workaholic.” Ron White Is there such a thing as healthy Type A workaholics? Let me share with you some current findings that we haven’t yet published about Type A personalities, with a focus on […]
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December 24, 2015 by Wally Bock
Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about hiring leadership development talent, data versus discretion in hiring, leadership development and inborn traits, […]
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December 23, 2015 by Wally Bock
Maura C. Ciccarelli’s HREOnline post, “Data vs. Discretion in Hiring,” includes the following provocative statement. “The authors also suggest that ‘managers exercise discretion because they are biased or have poor judgment, not because they are better informed. This implies that firms in our setting can further improve match quality by limiting managerial discretion and placing […]
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December 20, 2015 by Ken Nowack
“Predictions are very difficult, especially when they are about the future” Yogi Berra Maybe not all of us “have the right stuff” to be leaders. It’s a lot more popular to subscribe to “leaders are made” versus “leaders are born” but perhaps both positions are right. What do we know about the genetics of leadership? […]
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December 18, 2015 by Wally Bock
Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about effective learning implementations, 50 ways to leverage learning, the need for more global leadership […]
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