Survey examines how organizations are defining critical leadership skills for the future.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2013/07/Intelligence-Help-Wanted-High-Potential-Leaders
It took a few setbacks and subsequent tweaks, but the resulting global leadership development program has led to measurable success.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2013/07/Setting-the-GOLD-Standard
Blog #1: The nature of organizations has changed, and the leaders they require in the future will be fundamentally different from those they require today. It is time to recreate leadership for the requirements of the modern organization.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Global-HRD-Blog/2013/06/Rereate-LeadershipBlog-1-of-4
College dropouts who have made millions as entrepreneurs – Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, and others – have inspired a growing number of young people to skip college. “Why pay money when I can make money,” is the way kids define the choice to forego school to pursue a business idea. One of them, Dale Stephens, dropped out of Hendrix College in Arkansas and founded UnCollege, a “social movement designed to help you hack your education,” according to the group’s website.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Learning-Executive-Blog/2013/02/Get-Rich-or-Get-Smart
What it takes to create a culture of innovation.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2013/02/How-Leaders-Grow-Innovation
Since research in the 1970s by psychologist Ellen Langer, mindfulness, or concentration, has been credited with improving measures of cognitive function. In 2011, researchers from the University of Wisconsin demonstrated that daily meditation could shift frontal brain activity toward states that make us more likely to engage the world. In other words, focused thought changes our feelings at a neural level.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Blogs/Learning-Executive-Blog/2013/02/Attention-Management-and-the-Brain-Yogis-and-Magicians-Have-Something-to-Teach-Us
Nimble leaders must be able to be strategic one moment and tactical the next; to be visionary and inspiring one moment but practical and down-to-earth the next.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Newsletters/LX-Briefing/LXB-Archives/2012/12/Feature-Nimble-Leadership-Koonce
According to the Center for Talent Innovation, few minorities hold executive positions at fortune 500 companies due to a lack of sponsorship.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2012/11/Intelligence-Sponsoring-Career-Success-for-Minority-Workers
Fluor Corporation’s long history of learning and development cascades from the executive leadership and extends throughout the organization.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2012/10/BEST-Fluor-Corporation
When you examine the BEST award-winning organizations during the past decade, several key characteristics emerge. These winning organizations have metrics that matter—inclusion of learning objectives as part of individual performance goals, a clear link between learning and performance, an appropriate blend of learning delivery methods, and visible support from senior leaders—but one dominant characteristic is a part of all of them: a culture of learning.
http://www.astd.org/Publications/Magazines/TD/TD-Archive/2012/10/BEST-Additional-Winners