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Why vertical development?
---By Carl Sanders-Edwards The world faces many complex opportunities and challenges. For example global mobility, technology and population growth are contributing to: Social changes such as the opportunity and challenge of immigration Economic changes including...
Stretching the cultural bungee cord
---By Nick Petrie Have you worked in this type of organization? It became successful by meeting a particular customer need and found a winning, repeatable formula. Around that formula it developed a strong culture that was: siloed, technically expert, and good at...
Learning to ride
---By Carl Sanders-Edwards A week ago our youngest daughter, Alexa, was learning to ride a bike. In true Dad fashion, I was walking with her - nudging and holding her up. She has good balance but it wasn't pretty. So I helped more - I nudged, I held - I made it...
Want to get better at something? Get a coach.
We couldn't agree more. Watch Atul Gawande's must-see talk below... --- "How do professionals get better at what they do? How do they get great? And there are two views about this. One is the traditional pedagogical view. That is that you go to school, you study,...
Agile development I HR Examiner
Curious about how you can apply short cycle interactions as seen in manufacturing and software to leadership development? And want to know what broccoli has to do with it? Listen to the podcast interview here.
Adeption makes NASDAQ milestone
Carl Sanders-Edwards, CEO and founder of Adeption, rung the NASDAQ stock exchange bell, to celebrate graduation from the NASDAQ Milestone Makers this week. Carl’ and Adeption were displayed on Times Square at the same time. The prestigious 12-week NASDAQ program...
Talking development I HR.com
Connecting with HR.com. How do leaders learn? Taking deliberate actions that are aligned with what is important to them and their organizations, and supported by social connections / community. What’s our noble purpose? Democratizing leadership development so...
2 Ways to “Hack” Leadership Development, Silicon Valley-Style
The Leadership Development Hacks We’ve Learned from Developing Leaders in the Tech Industry The technology-driven, risk-infused, growth-obsessed world of Silicon Valley companies is different from the rest of the corporate world, our research has confirmed. We wanted...
B3 I Be Better
'It is easier to act your way into new ways of thinking than to think your way into new ways of acting" - Various attributions The third piece of our B3 approach - Be better - focuses on acting, prototyping, experimenting, discovering. What works for...