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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Reversing this means that companies start at the end — with results.

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Why I'm Cynical about the Consulting Profession | Consulting and.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Why I’m Cynical about the Consulting Profession By John Dupre on April 14, 2013. We would most often be asked in to help a leadership team that was struggling. team building, coaching, a visioning conference, a process improvement project, etc. Leadership. Unfortunately, that skill has become a dying art.