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    KB recommends
    • Mar 1
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: How Great Leaders Steer Clear Of Unconscious Traps In Strategic Planning

    Most boards and senior executives engage in routine strategic planning exercises, but they tend to overstate how well they hold...

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    KB recommends
    • Aug 2, 2021
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: Winning the ’20s in an Accelerated Post-COVID World

    COVID-19 and surrounding events have underlined the need for learning and adaptation and made success in the remainder of this decade...

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    KB recommends
    • Jan 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    BOOK: Great Leaders Realize They Don’t Even Know What They Don’t Know

    Before Covid-19 forced employers to padlock their doors while employees sheltered at home, business leaders didn’t have to look far for...

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    KB recommends
    • Jul 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: The Best Leaders Are Versatile Ones

    A recent hbr.org article describes two big challenges characterizing leadership today: the need to juggle a growing series of paradoxical...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Jul 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Unleash Your Inner Rebel

    In an age of constant change, it pays to be trailblazer. Harvard author Francesca Gino draws on her experiences studying the behavior of...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Jul 2, 2018
    • 1 min

    ARTICLE: Why Teams Should Argue

    In a recent strategy+business article, Adam Kahane observes through his work with a Mexican grassroots organization that a typical...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Dec 2, 2017
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap

    “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” ~Japanese proverb In a November HBR.org article, we learn...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Jul 7, 2017
    • 1 min

    VIDEO & ARTICLE: How Strategic Leaders Use Their Brain

    Strategy + Business explains how executive decision-makers can use their minds to transform organizations in an article on the...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • May 3, 2017
    • 1 min

    ARTICLE: What makes a CEO ‘exceptional’?

    New CEOs face enormous challenges in setting a strategic direction in today’s volatile environment. To provide some guidance for...

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    Karen Boylston
    • May 5, 2016
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Four Best Practices for Strategic Planning

    It’s that time again, and many companies I work with are in the midst of their annual strategic planning activities. It’s not unusual for...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Mar 9, 2016
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Coaching for the 21st Century

    Korn Ferry Institute's latest study of 200 coaches, Coaching for the 21st Century (PDF), illustrates that as the speed, uncertainty, and...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Aug 3, 2015
    • 1 min

    NEW BOOK: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Chose and Execute the Right Approach

    Executives are bombarded with best selling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and...

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