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Leadership in Action aims to help practicing leaders and those who train and develop practicing leaders by providing them with insights gained in the course of CCL's educational and research activities. It also aims to provide a forum for the exchange of information and ideas between practitioners and CCL staff and associates.

Sample Leadership in Action Table of Contents and Articles:
(From Volume 29, Issue 5, November/December 2009)

• Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company (*)
  All too often, leadership development programs fail to focus on learning linked to the company's business strategy and the real day-to-day challenges facing managers. The experience of a Sweden-based industrial group shows that leadership development can be a powerful tool for business transformation, but it requires going beyond traditional approaches. Only by confronting the efficacy of one's own organization within the context of its strategy and performance goals can leaders improve the quality of their management and leadership.
• Learning Mode: Adapting and Innovating Is Crucial for Teams
  Teams can be a potent force in the modern organizational world. The dynamic nature of this world requires continual adaptation and innovation. There are four general practices teams can engage in to ensure they are learning as they work: establishing a climate for learning, continually assessing team members' work together, working with a team coach, and managing knowledge effectively.
• Battles and Beliefs: Rethinking the Roles of Today's Leaders
  The two operating frameworks that leaders have traditionally relied on—the caregiver and the analyst—are important and valuable because they help leaders become humane and sensible. But these models work best in a rational world filled with reasonable people. Unfortunately, such an orderly world no longer exists, if it ever did. Something more is needed: two additional frameworks can help leaders make sense of the political and symbolic predicaments that organizations face daily. In short, today's organizations need more wizards and warriors.
• From the President (*)
• A Question of Leadership
  Which skills and competencies will be most critical for leaders as the workplace continues to evolve?
• Issues & Observations (*)
  Five Myths About Executive Coaching
• Issues & Observations
  Taking the Balcony View
• In Focus/Leadership Pressures
  Staying Grounded in the Midst of a Storm

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