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…developing future leaders earlier than other companies creates a competitive advantage that lasts for decades, as… pipelines of high achievers become bigger, better, and more reliable.
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Understand that people development works best through inspiration, not authority.
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You don’t develop people on the cheap, and you don’t just bolt a development program onto existing HR procedures.
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Though executives at the best companies talk about their leadership development programs, they generally realize the term isn’t quite right. Developing leaders isn’t a program – it’s a way of living.
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Just as great individual performers possess highly developed mental models of their domains, the best teams are composed of members who share a mental model…
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The effects of deliberate practice activities are cumulative. The more of a head start your organization gets in developing people individually and as teams, the more difficult it will be for your competitors ever to catch you.
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Creative achievement never came suddenly, even in those cases in which the creator later claimed that it did.
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…creative achievement is attained in the same way as other kinds of achievement.
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Wanting to achieve mastering of a field, committing to the long, hard work of achieving it, and then intending to innovate – that’s how it happens.
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…excellent performers seem to continue achieving at high levels well beyond the point where age-related declines would seem to make that impossible.
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