Friday Features
04-October-2019
Friday Features - a weekly selection of useful insights from business schools, consulting firms and publications to help you Unleash Your Leadership
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BY Maryan Kouchaki et al. via Kellogg Insights
Many people are hesitant to expose their emotions, fears, and desires to their colleagues, bosses, employees, or customers. Yet being authentic at work is likely a risk worth taking. Authenticity can make workers more ethical, leaders more confident, and customer relationships stronger.
BY Bob Free-Heck via Entrepreneur.COM
Medical professionals facing emergencies that compress time, tax precious resources and demand split-second life-or-death decisions use the art of triage to prioritize the urgency of treatment and degree of care. That’s a good model for all of us as we’re pressed to make decisions that affect the structural integrity and emotional readiness of the organizations we serve.
BY Biljana Cvetanovski et al. via McKInsey.com
What makes someone a growth leader? For most business leaders, the answer tends to boil down to a variation of “I know it when I see it.” But according to this new survey from McKinsey, there is a specific set of attributes that growth leaders share.
BY Jeremy Pollack via FastCompany
Managers at work must have a quick and straightforward blueprint for resolving interpersonal matters in the office. When you’re managing a team of people who have to work with each other, conflict will arise. Here’s a four-step process you can follow.
BY Steve Glaveski via Harvard Business Review
Not only is the majority of training in today’s companies ineffective, but the purpose, timing, and content of training is flawed. Lean learning ensures that employees not only learn the right thing, at the right time, and for the right reasons, but also that they retain what they learn.
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Narayan Kamath
