Organizational Leadership
Learning from Experience.
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Thu, 07/22/2010 - 13:50
Learning to be a more effective leader is the result of a wide range of challenging experiences.
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When Intention is Irrelevant
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Thu, 07/22/2010 - 13:50
CCL's Doug Riddle reminds us that people around us pay much more attention to what we don't say and what we don't follow up on than what we actually do.
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Leadership Tensions in the Middle Zone
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
If you are a mid- to senior-level manager - a leader of managers - have you ever wondered why your job is so complicated? You're an experienced manager and an effective leader - and yet, leading in what CCL calls "the middle zone" is anything but easy.
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Your Leadership Mojo: Wisdom from Marshall Goldsmith
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
Imagine you are given a gift of valuable professional and personal advice. Wisdom that clarifies your next steps. Marshall Goldsmith, renowned executive coach and author of Mojo: How To Get It, How To Keep It, How To Get It Back If You Lose It, shares a favorite coaching exercise to help leaders learn what matters most.
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Accelerating Performance: A Case Study
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
In times of rapid change, senior executives want to bolster bottom-line performance and continuously develop their organizations - and that calls for building leadership learning into the everyday execution of strategy. But how do you do that effectively?
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Career Setback? Learn and Lead
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
Career setbacks can be demoralizing but they don't need to be debilitating.
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Ten Principles of Conflict Competence
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
Conflict is common, but few of us are confident in our ability to respond to it. Leading groups, teams, partners and other stakeholders through conflict is even more challenging. We asked Craig Runde and Tim Flanagan, authors of the new book Developing Your Conflict Competence, to summarize key principles for responding effectively to conflict.
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Leadership, Microfinance and CSR.
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
French food company Danone and microfinance lender Grameen Bank are in the news for their social sector focus. Find out what CCL knows about leadership in the social arena.
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Connecting Leader Development with Organizational Needs.
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
Leader development systems do more than just produce effective leaders; they also serve broader organizational needs.
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Is 8 to 5 the Only 'Real' Job?
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
Kelly Hannum continues to tackle the notion that an 8-to-5 schedule is necessary for work. Read more in her most recent post.
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CCL Names Executive Coach Prasad Kaipa as New Visiting Fellow
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
Executive coach and strategic advisor Dr. Prasad Kaipa, who has worked with more than 100 senior executives and board members globally, will serve as the Center for Creative Leadership's new H. Smith Richardson Visiting Fellow for 2010-2011.
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Can "Doing Good" Make a Difference in Job Retention and Turnover?
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
Corporate social responsibility is not a panacea for employee retention, according to CCL research. This finding emerged from CCL's 2008-2009 World Leadership Survey, which sampled the opinions of 2,215 workers around the globe.
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Financial Times Ranks CCL No. 3 Worldwide for Executive Education
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) ranked No. 3 overall - up three spots from last year - in the 2010 Financial Times worldwide survey of executive education released today. This is CCL's highest ranking since it began taking part in the survey in 2002
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CCL, American Express Partner on Fourth Nonprofit Leadership Academy
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
The five-day training program immerses participants in leadership training and development courses through sessions with CCL faculty and American Express senior executives.
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CCL Serves NGOs in Africa with New Office
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/29/2010 - 10:49
Created in partnership with Unity University, the new office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia will serve as CCL's base for expanding its work mainly with social sector clients throughout the continent.
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Organizational Culture: The Hidden Cost of "How"
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/22/2010 - 10:49
"We trust people to be adults in so many areas of their lives," says journalist and author Brian Carney. "But when they walk through the doors at work, we insist they need detailed rules and descriptions for how to do a job."
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Sustaining Innovation
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/22/2010 - 10:49
Put an entrepreneur, a radiologist, an engineer, a manufacturing manager and a director of a global internet company in the same room. Add in some R&D managers, corporate executives, designers, strategists and a few 20-somethings. You've got a high-energy meeting of the Association for Managers of Innovation.
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Wake Up to Lead
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/22/2010 - 10:49
Too often we lead and live on autopilot: getting through the day, putting out the latest fire at work or home, responding to what's in front of us. There is an alternative, says Clint Sidle, author of This Hungry Spirit: Your Need for Basic Goodness.
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Need Directions?
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/22/2010 - 10:49
Wouldn't it be nice to have a GPS navigator for leader development? CCL's new Leader Development Roadmap is the next best thing.
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Is Your Mojo Where It Should Be?
News from Center for Creative Leadership - Tue, 06/22/2010 - 10:49
In April, renowned executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith visited CCL's global headquarters in Greensboro, NC. Goldsmith, who made best seller lists in 2007 with What Got You Here Won't Get You There, talked with CCL President John Ryan about his newest bestseller, Mojo: How To Get It, How To Keep It, How To Get It Back If You Lose It.
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