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2009
Take advantage of this opportunity to grapple with big business issues and create an action plan with peer executives and renowned faculty. Lively work group discussions, interactive roundtables, and shared best practices are certain to be part of the experience as you engage with your peers.
Mobile LearningLet’s face it: the world has gone mobile and there’s nothing anybody can do to stop it. As more computer-esque gadgets enter our lives, working professionals are working in a more go-go-go schedule, taking their office the same way most of us take our morning coffee: to go!
Do You Know Any Positive Deviants?The process of benchmarking implies that the ideas for significant organizational improvements must come from outside. The founder of Positive Deviance, Jerry Sternin, has a contrary view. Sternin states that “You can’t bring permanent solutions in from outside." Learning organizations should utilize both of these practices in order to maximize the opportunities for performance improvement, and thus success.
Leaders For The FutureIf you believe the conventional wisdom, succession management should be easy. The traits of a successful leader are well known. There are well-researched behavioral models and assessment tools that can be used to identify the high potentials in a company. So, succession management should simply be a matter of finding people with the right traits, giving them first-rate learning and on-the job experiences, and coaching and mentoring them. But it isn’t working...