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Personal Development

What skills to develop to best hold your role as a manager or leader? What tools to rely on? What subjects to put into practice?

Leading change: Why transformation efforts fail

John P. Kotter

Eight classic errors that explain the high proportion of failed change projects.

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When Should a Leader Apologize - and When Not?

Barbara Kellerman

The benefits of public apologies made by business leaders.

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Applied governance: beyond compliance

"A plea for appointing ""Transparency Directors""."

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Is Silence Killing Your Company?

Leslie A. Perlow, Stephanie Williams

Dare to tackle dissensions and differences of opinion.

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How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea

Kimberly D. Elsbach

Be more convincing by gaining a better understanding of how your audience instinctively classifies you into predefined categories.

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How to succeed with your new boss

Start out on the right foot with a new boss.

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Why Managing Up Matters

Actively managing the relationship with our line managers by integrating their objectives, their constraints and their personality. 

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The Art of Work

Thomas H. Davenport, Susan Cantrell, Robert J. Thomas

Reinforce the creativity of “knowledge workers.”

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Anyone here have any bright ideas?

Reinhard Ziegler

Focus the organization on trying to innovate every day.

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Getting It Right the Second Time

Gabriel Szulanski, Sidney Winter

How can you replicate successful initiatives without falling in usual traps?

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