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 preparing students for an increasingly complex business world, Evernote “Officer Training,” learning to learn collectively, and Dan McCarthy’s New Year’s development goals for leaders.
From Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Preparing Students for an Increasingly Complex Business World
“Are engineering and management schools adequately preparing students for our fast-changing, highly complex business world? Not quite, say a number of recent studies. A good education should include soft as well as hard competencies. Universities generally do a pretty good job when it comes to teaching hard skills, – engineering methods, technology, analytical tools, finance, marketing, and so on. But they don’t do so well with the softer competencies, including communications, teamwork and systemic thinking.”
From Drake Baer: Evernote Uses A Meeting Hack From Nuclear Submarines To Develop Talent
“Evernote CEO Phil Libin has said that he wants his company to be a ‘100 year startup’ — an innovative company that people love that lasts for a century.”
From Stephen J. Gill: Learning to Learn Collectively
“A major characteristic of a learning culture is that individuals, teams, and whole organizations are constantly learning how to learn. They are learning how to acquire the knowledge and skills that they need to help the organization be successful. The teacher-centered, classroom-focused, right-and-wrong answer, static instructional environment that was the primary modality in the schools they attended does not fit the rapidly changing, technology mediated, on-demand knowledge and skills that are needed in today’s organizations. In this environment, people need to be continually figuring out different ways to learn, whether that be individually using new technology, or in teams that are trying to become more effective, or as the whole organization learning how to communicate, how to use resources more efficiently, or how to make better decisions.”
From Dan McCarthy: New Year’s Development Goals for Leaders
“For many leaders, it’s a time to reflect on accomplishments for the year and establish goals for the upcoming New Year. It’s also a good time to set leadership development goals, either as part of a formal development planning process, or just because it’s a proven way to continuously improve as a leader.”
