Archive: December 14, 2008 - December 20, 2008
Teaching Leadership Skills
One of your most crucial jobs as a manager is to help develop your direct reports' leadership capabilities. Action learning can help. Through action learning, individuals work through actual business problems and apply lessons learned to new challenges. How it...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | December 19, 2008; 10:42 AM ET | Comments (0)
Drive Your Own Development as a Leader
Many top-performing companies are investing in "pull" (self-directed) leadership-development approaches. In "pull" approaches, people have extensive choice and flexibility and take more responsibility for enhancing their leadership talents. How to fully exploit "pull" approaches? One way is to focus on...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | December 18, 2008; 12:00 PM ET | Comments (0)
Top 10 Ways Obama Can Change American Culture
Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter blogs at HarvardBusiness.org about leadership, innovation and change. Here she offers 10 ways Obama's presidency could change "the work ethic and business norms that can support recovery and competitiveness." In the transition to...
By HarvardBusiness.org Editors | December 17, 2008; 10:00 AM ET | Comments (1)
Combat Prejudice to Get the Promotion You Want
Are you being kept from advancing to more senior roles because of your race or gender? Ascending the corporate ladder is tough for all contenders, but women and minorities often face especially great challenges. One strategy is to look beyond...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | December 17, 2008; 8:00 AM ET | Comments (0)
How General Motors Violated Your Trust
Here's Harvard Business School Professor and HarvardBusiness.org marketing expert John Quelch on the eight reasons GM's marketing efforts have failed so catastrophically. This post originally appeared at HarvardBusiness.org In a fascinating mea culpa, General Motors has finally discovered the consumer...
By HarvardBusiness.org Editors | December 15, 2008; 10:00 AM ET | Comments (4)
