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Leadership Maintenance

November 12, 2026

The Leadership Maintenance Fees That Never Go Away

Leadership development resembles a timeshare with ongoing maintenance costs that never stop. Certain skills require continuous investment regardless of a leader's past success. Three

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November 6, 2026

Is Technical Expertise an Important Competency for Top Executives?

How important is technical expertise for executive leadership success? Zenger Folkman research involving more than 74,000 raters reveals a 60-percentile-point gap in leadership effectiveness

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October 1, 2026

Want to Take More Initiative at Work? Research Reveals 6 Behaviors That Matter

Taking initiative is more than doing things without being asked. Research on more than 15,000 individual contributors identifies six behaviors the best initiative-takers share,

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September 17, 2026

AI Leadership Failure: Why AI Transformation Depends on Leaders

AI leadership failure isn’t just a technology problem—it’s a people problem. Research from 138,777 leaders reveals why coaching, motivation, and trust may determine whether

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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 see your leadership roughly twice as accurately as you see yourself. Drawing on more than a million evaluations, here is

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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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Trust: The Proven Formula eBook cover

August 24, 2026

Trust: The Proven Formula eBook

Free eBook Trust: The Proven Formula eBook While there could be hundreds of behaviors that impact trust, just three can account for the vast

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