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The Rise of the Servant Leader

CLO Magazine

The practice of management and leadership is constantly evolving. In the 20th century, information became as important as materials, leading to what my friend and mentor Peter Drucker called knowledge work. But what does servant leadership look like to the average manager who has a budget to work within and goals to meet?

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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

One realization is that most of the benefits to business are coming increasingly from so-called knowledge work, work that processes information in productive ways. A nurturing innovation environment requires explicit skills, ongoing facilitation, leadership and a welcoming culture. What is L&D’s Role?

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More Curious Learning

Learning Rebels

” Sometimes it’s HR leadership, or business leadership or even clients who are demanding we implement these myths as truths, our role is not to sit back and blindly smile and nod but to speak up and plant the seeds to thought independence. Where is the curious learner in you? The back of milk carton?

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How companies can Improve their Talent Development and employee retention

Matrix

You and your HR professionals need to make ongoing efforts to build their skills, confidence, and leadership potential. But close guidance from business leaders can help to develop close bonds and more practical knowledge. Simply giving your employees the basic training they need to perform tasks isn’t enough.

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

When you have the right people with the right skills and knowledge working on a project, the project is more likely to succeed, with increased productivity, positive team dynamics and decreased attrition rates leading to happy clients and customers and greater returns for your business.

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

When you have the right people with the right skills and knowledge working on a project, the project is more likely to succeed, with increased productivity, positive team dynamics and decreased attrition rates leading to happy clients and customers and greater returns for your business.

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

Luis Suarez summarizes the key point in the para here: … we need handshake leadership; we need to have handshake conversations, handshake friends, handshake dialogues, handshake meetings. This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration.

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