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
From Claudio Fernández-Aráoz: To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments
“Over the course of my career, I’ve spent countless hours talking to and hearing from leaders around the world. I’ve interviewed thousands of candidates for managerial roles and tracked the performance of those I successfully hired. I led the global management appraisal practice of our own executive search firm, Egon Zehnder. And I’ve spent years with colleagues at Harvard Business School and other academic institutions researching what makes people effective in their jobs. One key lesson I’ve drawn from all this experience? The most successful leaders are the ones who continue to learn and grow, and the best way to help yourself – or your team — do that is through assignments that involve increasing complexity.”
From Bob Mosher: We Need to Rethink the Classroom
“What the classroom does better then any other learning environment — so far — is be highly adaptive, collaborative and safe. These are powerful things, things we rarely see exploited in the model. Instead, content dominates the outline, format and flow because we focus more on what people need to know ahead of what they need to do. Therein lies the rub. We rarely have a clear understanding of the doing, therefore we obsess on the knowing, leaving the classroom to be the catch all for everything.”
From Martin Couzins: We can access more knowledge, but are we more knowledgeable?
“I’m also interested in this because more web filtering tools are providing an AI driven experience. This experience may or may not provide us with the full picture on any given topic. Do we even know or care how an algorithm works? Knowing we are short on time, we take shortcuts which means we might find that we take the easiest and quickest route to finding what we need. But is that the best stuff, or the right stuff? What’s the impact on what we know?”
From Kirsten Frasch: The Leadership-Development Woes Continue
“The latest survey on the subject — from Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning — finds only 7 percent of organizations believe their leadership-development programs are best-in-class.”
