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Developing Leadership Skills

October 15, 2026

How Extraordinary Leaders Are Made eBook

Free eBook How Extraordinary Leaders Are Made Most leaders begin their careers aiming to be good functional specialists, but few set their sights on

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September 17, 2026

AI Leadership Failure: Why AI Transformation Depends on Leaders

Jonathan Bowder and Joe Folkman AI is a leadership problem disguised as a technology problem. The biggest AI leadership failure may be assuming that

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Self-Awareness in Leadership

September 2, 2026

Self-Awareness in Leadership: Why Others See You More Clearly Than You See Yourself

The people around you may understand your leadership roughly twice as accurately as you understand yourself. Not slightly better—twice as accurately. We’ve measured this

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August 25, 2026

Leadership Skills 2026 Report

Free eBook Leadership Skills 2026 Report AI can analyze data. It can’t build trust, inspire commitment, or make judgment calls when the path forward

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May 14, 2026

Standout Competencies of the Most Effective Health Care Leaders

What separates elite health care leaders from the rest — and how you can develop them The Unique Demands of Health Care Leadership Healthcare

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May 13, 2026

The Ripple Effect: How Candor Transforms Leadership Effectiveness

We have written previously about the impact of leaders being more candid and straightforward in their communications. It was found to be an extremely

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February 9, 2026

The Real Cost of Leadership Development? Zero.

Last Updated: September 2026 When a client recently challenged us to justify their cost of leadership development with hard data, we welcomed the conversation.

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February 4, 2026

Episode 181: Highlights from The Leadership Skills Report 2026

Details In this episode of The 90th Percentile, BreAnne Okoren and Joe Folkman unpack Zenger Folkman’s new Leadership Skills 2026 Report?and explore what truly

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October 8, 2025

Episode 175: 7 Key Leadership Behaviors of the Most Effective Decision Makers

Details What separates the best decision-makers from the rest? In this episode, Joe Folkman shares research on nearly 16,000 leaders to reveal seven key

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