"Turning high potentials to star performers"
Organisational high flyers display many contradictory behaviour patterns, and it’s this paradoxical nature which makes them so successful. Spotting nascent stars can be a challenge, not least because we can’t always be sure what we’re looking for. Some may first impress us as ‘‘golden larvae’’, but never complete metamorphosis, while others grow into true butterflies. This blog discusses the qualities that turn high potentials into top performers.
INSEAD Knowledge, 2014
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"Peer coaching and strategy alignment"
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This blog entry with the Harvard Business Review discusses challenge of managing passive-aggressives.
Published on 20 Feb, 2014
"Fairy tales for today’s executives"
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Coaching narcissists to move beyond a world in black and white
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Published on 1 Dec, 2016
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