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Measuring Impact of Leadership Development: Getting Back to Basics In the 60-plus years since Donald Kirkpatrick published his landmark dissertation on the four levels of learning evaluation, there is still great debate about our ability to measure the impact of...

In Leader Development, Talent Metrics ARE Business Metrics Even with a soft year in 2023, merger and acquisition activity still exceeded $3 trillion.  In the many costly transactions that occurred, few of these were expected to produce immediate financial gains for...

Navigating Complexity, part 3: Football, Floorspace and the Art of the Experiment This is the third and final post in a series on how leaders can effectively navigate the complexity of today’s business world for their organizations. Read the previous post here. In my...

Polarities are at the heart of navigating complexity for leaders. Read about the three key mindset shifts to recognize and manage polarities as a leader.

Navigating Complexity and Uncertainty: A New Map for a New Territory I don’t know. In the world of leadership and management, these three words are the most feared – by leaders, by shareholders, and by employees. This fear of “I don’t know” has come to the surface...

Making Organizations Human Again Through Learning After many years in the business world, I’ve grown very accustomed to—maybe too accustomed to—the extraordinarily artificial world of The Organization. Constructs like reporting relationships, span-of-control analyses,...

Leader development strategy comes in layers. Breaking down strategy into three distinct dimensions can help create clarity in your approach.

Too many talent leaders operate without a true leader development strategy. This article defines leader development strategy and what it does for the business.