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Advancing Organizational Science Through Synthetic Data: A Path to Enhanced Data Sharing and Collaboration

Leadership Capabilities for Navigating a Polycrisis

Evaluating a novel method of scoring multirater assessments of leader competencies

Unpacking Multisource Leadership Ratings: A Test of the Leadership Arena-Reputation-Identity Model

Rags to Riches or Falling from Grace: Gestalt Characteristics of Income Mobility, Core Self-evaluations, and Career Success

Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Through Paradox Management

Competency Ambidexterity to Achieve Leadership Excellence and Reduce Derailment Risk in a Globalized World: A Cross-Cultural Study

A Bibliometric Study of Positive Psychological Capital: Investigating Intellectual Foundations through Co-citation and Content Analyses

Leadership as Conversation: A New Tool to Support Leadership Development

REAL: CCL’s Research-Based Leadership Framework for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Action

A window into your status: Environment-based social class’s effect on virtual leadership

Actions Speak Louder Than (Listening to) Words

Stronger Together: Let’s Lead More Inclusively in Business Schools

Big Five Personality Traits and Trait Theories of Leadership

Monday Mourning: A Call for the Study of Bereavement in the Workplace

Leadership Challenge Ladder™ Technical Report

Reconsidering Myths about Teamwork Using CCL’s Framework on Team Effectiveness

Setting the stage: Feedback environment improves outcomes for a 360-degree-feedback leader-development program

Time heals all wounds? HRM and bereavement in the workplace

A Tale of Two Offices: The Socioeconomic Environment’s Effect on Job Performance While Working From Home

Good Soldiers versus Organizational Wives: Does Anyone (Besides Us) Care that Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scales Are Gendered and Mostly Measure Men’s—but Not Women’s—Citizenship Behavior?

Citizenship ambivalence: Its nature, causes and consequences

Leadership Development as a Lever for Social Change

Stemming the Great Resignation through Leadership Development

Future Fluent Nation Builders: State of Leadership in Public Sector Enterprises in India

Cosmetic, conversation, or commitment: A study of EDI corporate messages, motives, and metrics after George Floyd’s Murder

Psychologically Safe for Some, but Not All?

Leadership Development in the Flow of Work: Leveraging Technology to Accelerate Learning

Leader-facilitated emotion management and perceived effectiveness: moderating roles of leader gender and culture

Ambition: a deterrent to workplace deviance among narcissistic leaders

For young people, by young people: Insights into young adults’ leadership experiences and aspirations in ASEM countries

Using structural topic modeling to gain insight into challenges faced by leaders

Pandemic paradoxes and how they affect your workers

Developing the theory and practice of leadership development: A relational view

The future is here: A benchmark study of digitally enabled assessment and development tools

Why does a growth mindset intervention impact achievement differently across secondary schools? Unpacking the causal mediation mechanism from a national multisite randomized experiment

The stories we tell: Why cognitive distortions matter for leaders

The chief of leadership development: Preparing today’s leaders for tomorrow’s challenges

Leading through COVID-19: The impact of pandemic stress and what leaders can do about it

Private-to-Public TRANSITIONS

Digital leadership readiness: Lessons from Singapore

CCL Labs webinar: Beating the Odds for Women in STEM

CCL Labs webinar: Introducing Leadership Context Explorer

Happy 2021! Here are 5 free exercises to make you reflect on the year ahead!

Building leadership resilience: The CORE framework

CCL Labs webinar: Deconstructing Leadership Development

Leadership Development Impact (LDI) Framework

Role-based engagement: scale development and validation

Building bridges: Empowering G20 youth to be leaders

CCL Labs webinar: Cognitive Distortions Explorer

CCL Labs webinar: Using a Gratitude Journal

Whether, how, and why networks influence men’s and women’s career success: Review and research agenda

Executive outlook 2020 CCLs summary of leadership development research

CCL Labs survey: we need more trust, less executive image!

CCL Labs experiment: Crowdsourcing the Competencies for Future Success

Under-representation of global leaders from Asia: Competency gap or an unconscious bias?

Sounds like a leader: An ascription-actuality approach to examining leader emergence and effectiveness

CCL Labs presents “Social-Emotional Leadership: Building Youth Capacity in Times of Change”

Labs@CCL presents “A Benchmark Study of Digitally Enabled Assessment & Development Tools”

Cyberaggression in work-related email: Nomological network and links to victims’ counterproductive work behavior

Marrying personality and job resources and their effect on engagement via critical psychological states

Is the future of leadership development wearable? Exploring self-tracking in leadership programs

Overcoming barriers to women’s leadership

The effect of multiple negative, neutral, and positive organizational changes

Gender and career success: A typology and analysis of dual paradigms

Vertical leadership for executive teams: Culture still wins over strategy

The costs of online learning: Examining differences in motivation and academic outcomes in online and face-to-face community college developmental mathematics courses

From knowing to doing in workplace relationships: Introducing workplace relational self-efficacy

Principal actions related to increases in teacher-principal trust: Comparative case studies

A case of evolutionary mismatch? Why facial width-to-height ratio may not predict behavioral tendencies

Visual Explorer & the Tao

How informal networks can strengthen your organization’s strategy

The quantified leader: Wearables & self-tracking technology for development

Six strategies for digital learning success

I feel your pain: A critical review of organizational research on empathy

How to lead virtual teams: The power of leveraging polarities

A critical evaluation of the state of assessment and development for senior leaders

Does reducing male domination in teams attenuate or intensify the harmful effects of perceived discrimination on women's job satisfaction? A test of competing hypotheses

How to know if your culture change strategy is working

Looking Ahead: How What We Know About Sexual Harassment Now Informs Us of the Future

Rapid response measurement: Development of a faking-resistant assessment method for personality

Ready to R.I.S.E. insights from: 300 women leaders, 5 women’s leadership innovation labs, 3 continents, 1 diverse world

Give your leaders a developmental edge: The Power of digitally enabled assessments

Redefining talent for the new world of work: Stay ahead of change with Talent Portfolio Agility™

Leveraging subordinates for performance: How managers benefit from mentoring relationships

Coaching infrastructure: The building block of impactful coaching programs

Developing leaders to tackle “our” problem

Visual Explorer in Africa

Challenge accepted: Managing polarities to enhance virtual team effectiveness

Problem employees: Identify and manage them before they impact your business and career

Vertical transformation of leadership culture

Thriving in central network positions: The role of political skill

CHRO 3.0: Preparing to lead the future HR function in Asia

Rating expatriate leader effectiveness in multisource feedback systems: Cultural distance and hierarchical effects

Tired at work: A roadblock to effective leadership

Leading together: Strengthening relational trust in the adult school community

Staying on track: The buffering effect of culture on leadership strength and derailment potential

Developing next-generation Indian business leaders: The keys to success

Glass doors to the corner office: Women and leadership

Elevating women’s leadership in India: Issues and insights

How bosses can make or break leadership development programs

How empathic concern helps leaders in providing negative feedback: A two‐study examination

How to prevent overwork from killing productivity

3 crucial behaviors for successfully leading innovation

Fast track: How top Silicon Valley companies accelerate leadership development

What women want—And why you want women—In the workplace

Infusing twenty-first-century skills into engineering education

Tired of being fatigued? Introduction to the special issue

Can’t sleep, won’t sleep: Exploring leaders’ sleep patterns, problems, and attitudes

Change-capable leadership the real power propelling successful change

Team sponsors in community-based health leadership programs

Evaluating the impact of leadership development - 2nd Edition

Busting myths about feedback: What leaders should know

Reframing the decision-makers’ dilemma: Towards a social context model of creative idea recognition

Incorporating social networks into leadership development: A conceptual model and evaluation of research and practice

Holding leaders accountable during the 360 feedback process

Building the case for executive coaching

The care and feeding of the leader's brain

Emotions Explorer: Theoretical Background

Green lights and stop signs: The road to gender parity in retail and consumer goods

Queen bee syndrome: The real reason women do not promote women

Dropped on the Way to the Top: Gender and Managerial Derailment

Putting experience at the center of talent management

Analytics for change: How networks and data science will revolutionize organizational change

The promise of qualitative methods for expanding theories of positive youth development

Leveraging relational assets for adolescent development: A qualitative investigation of youth–adult “connection” in positive youth development

A multilevel CFA–MTMM approach for multisource feedback instruments: Presentation and application of a new statistical model

The coach's view: Coach and coachee characteristics add up to successful coaching engagements

Collective and network approaches to leadership: Special issue introduction

Underestimating one's leadership impact: Are women leaders more susceptible?

The irony of integrity: A study of the character strengths of leaders

"It's not about me. It's me & you." How being dumped can help first-time managers

The challenges leaders face around the world: More similar than different

A leadership gap analysis for Chinese leaders from a 360-Degree survey

Grooming top leaders: Cultural perspectives from China, India, Singapore and the United States

Creating tomorrow’s government leaders: An overview of top leadership challenges and how they can be addressed

Addressing the leadership gap in healthcare: What's needed when it comes to leader talent?

Making your life work: A new approach to increasing your effectiveness on and off the job

Learning leadership in the military: Key developmental events & lessons from senior officers

Empathy in the workplace: A tool for effective leadership

Boundary spanning leadership: Mission critical perspectives from the executive suite

Motivational cultural intelligence, realistic job preview, realistic living conditions preview, and cross-cultural adjustment

Motivating your managers: What's the right strategy?

Using mindfulness to improve high potential development

World leadership survey biannual report on employee commitment and engagement 2013–2014

Female professionals' gender-professional identity integration (G-PII) and creativity

Managing paradox: Blending East and West philosophies to unlock its advantages and opportunities

Crafting your career: Cultural variations in career-relevant relationships

The state of teams

Leadership development in Africa: A focus on strengths

The leadership gap: What you need, and still don't have, when it comes to leadership talent

Expanding the leadership equation: Developing next-generation leaders

Always on, never done? Don’t blame the smartphone

Navigating innovation roadblocks: Key differences between innovative and non-innovation organizations

The coach's view: Best practices for successful coaching engagements

What's next? The 2007 changing nature of leadership survey

How displaying empathic concern may differentially predict career derailment potential for women and men leaders in Australia

Developing leadership by building psychological capital

Transforming your organization

Developing leaders in Latin America: Understanding managerial derailment

Mediated dialogue: See your way through change

Accelerators: Critical competencies for women leaders in retail and consumer goods

Measurement and predictive invariance of a work-life boundary measure across gender

Make learning stick: Best practices to get the most out of leadership development

Making it click: Strategies for helping computer-challenged leaders

Toward interdependent leadership culture: A transformation case study of KONE Americas

Managerial motivational profiles: Composition, antecedents, and consequences

Developing leaders in the public sector of the kingdom: Data and perspectives from the Center for Creative Leadership

Biased self-perception tendencies: Self-enhancement/self-diminishment and leader derailment in individualistic and collectivistic cultures

Mentoring first-time managers: Proven strategies HR leaders can use

Women and political savvy: How to build and embrace a fundamental leadership skill

A 30-country multilevel test of cultural convergence or divergence of three managerial skillsets

Bossy: What's gender got to do with it?

How to be the boss without being the b-word (bossy)

Creating a dynamic and sustainable talent ecosystem

Waistlines and ratings of executives: Does executive status overcome obesity stigma?

Leader self-awareness: An examination and implications of women’s under-prediction

The leadership challenge in the pharmaceutical sector: What critical capabilities are missing when it comes to leadership talent and how can they be developed?

Understanding the leadership challenges of first-time managers: Strengthening your leadership pipeline

Networks: How collective leadership really works

Using political skill to maximize and leverage work relationships

Collective leadership for cultures of high quality health care

Transformational change: An ecosystem approach

The effectiveness of the leadership development programme in Europe

Getting real: How high-achieving women can lead authentically

Virtuous leadership: Exploring the effects of leader courage and behavioral integrity on leader performance and image

Leadership strategies for societal impact

Developing network perspective: Understanding the basics of social networks and their role in leadership

Boundary spanning in action: Tactics for transforming today's borders into tomorrow's frontiers

Employees’ adaptability and perceptions of change-related uncertainty: Implications for perceived organizational support, job satisfaction, and performance

A leader's network: How to help your talent invest in the right relationships at the right time

Making leadership happen

Sleep well, lead well: How better sleep can improve leadership, boost productivity, and spark innovation

Exploring shared value: Use inter-organizational networks as a strategy for business success and positive societal impact

Delivering a collective leadership strategy for health care

What makes an effective leader? Generations in India weigh in

Leadership development beyond competencies: Moving to a holistic approach

Leader behaviors and career derailment potential: A multi-analytic method examination of rating source and self–other agreement

Bridging the strategy/performance gap: How leadership strategy drives business results

Learning about learning agility

High-potential talent: A view from inside the leadership pipeline

What makes a leader effective? U.S.boomers, xers, and millennials weigh in

The role of feedback in supervisor and workgroup identification

Future trends in leadership development

U.S. students' beliefs about leadership

Advances in leader and leadership development: A review of 25 years of research and theory

Leadership is in the eye of the beholder: How images of leadership that people have differ across the organization

Measuring cumulative workplace change: Development of the cumulative change scale

Personality and political skill as distal and proximal predictors of leadership evaluations

Utilizing the theoretical framework of collective identity to understand processes in youth programs

Impact of leader competency type with leader promotability: Extending self-other agreement research

Feedback to managers: A guide to reviewing and selecting multirater instruments for leadership development (Fourth Edition)

Validating the feedback orientation scale in a leadership development context

What makes a leader effective? Generations in the U.K weigh in

What makes an effective leader? Generations in South Africa weigh in

What coaches believe are best practices for coaching: A qualitative study of interviews from coaches residing in Asia and Europe

Reconsidering the equivalence of multisource performance ratings: Evidence for the importance and meaning of rater factors

Learning to lead: A comparison of developmental events and learning among managers in China, India and the United States

The relative importance of political skill dimensions for predicting managerial effectiveness

Integrity's place among the character strengths of middle-level managers and top-level executives

A bridge too far? How boundary spanning networks drive organizational change and effectiveness

Through the looking glass: How relationships shape managerial careers

Motivation at work: Which matters more, generation or managerial level?

Absence of support makes the heart wander: Why people want to leave (or stay with) their organization

The executive mind: Leader self-talk, effectiveness and strain

The needs of participants in leadership development programs: A qualitative and quantitative cross-country investigation

Trouble ahead: Derailment is alive and well

Go for the goal(s): Relationship between goal setting and transfer of training following leadership development

The role of multicultural competence and emotional intelligence in managing diversity

Relative importance of managerial skills for predicting effectiveness

Work–nonwork boundary management profiles: A person-centered approach

Trends in succession management in Asia: HR perspectives across three countries

When political skill matters to leader effectiveness ratings: The role of perceived prosocial impact

The long arm of job insecurity: Its impact on career-specific parenting behaviors and youths' career self-efficacy

Integrating implicit leadership theories and fit into the development of global leaders: A 360-degree approach

Developing top leaders for a globalised Asia: Lessons from best-practice organisations in Singapore

A convergence/divergence perspective of leadership competencies managers believe are most important for success in organizations: A cross-cultural multilevel analysis of 40 countries

Reputational change among managers

2012 annual report: How to maintain an engaged workforce

Getting to “We”: Collective leadership development

Are leaders born or made? Perspectives from the executive suite

Empathic emotion and leadership performance: An empirical analysis across 38 countries

The innovation equation for leaders: People + context = innovation

Change comes at a cumulative cost: Make it worth the investment!

360-degree feedback: Best practices to ensure impact

Derailment signs across generations: More in common than expected

A comparison of generational differences in endorsement of leadership practices with actual leadership skill level

Flat world, hard boundaries – How to lead across them

The Benchmarks sourcebook three decades of related research

Motivated by the organization’s mission or their career? Implications for leaders in turbulent times

Asia Pacific leadership effectiveness dashboard: Critical competencies, strengths, and gaps

When building strength is not enough: An exploration of derailment potential and leadership strength

Political skill as an indicator of promotability among multiple rater sources

Psychological costs of support seeking and choice of communication channel

Employee perceptions of corporate social responsibility - Africa

Erratum to: "Millennials at work: What we know and what we need to do (if anything)"

Leadership responses to a conflict of gender-based tension: A comparison of responses between men and women in the US and South Africa

Self-other rating agreement in leadership: A review

Self–other rating agreement in leadership: A review

Developmental relationships and managerial promotability in organizations: A multisource study

Leadership practices for corporate global responsibility

Effective global management: Established constructs and novel contexts

Self-observer rating discrepancies of managers in Asia: A study of derailment characteristics and behaviors in Southern and Confucian Asia

Hierarchical linear modeling as an example for measuring change over time in a leadership development evaluation context

Building trust in the workplace: A key to retaining women

Employee engagement: Has it been a bull market?

Employee perceptions of corporate social responsibility: The implications for your organization

“I don't see me like you see me, but is that a problem?” Cultural influences on rating discrepancy in 360-degree feedback instruments

Leadership across differences: A report on research and findings

Polynomial regression with response surface analysis: A powerful approach for examining moderation and overcoming limitations of difference scores

Finding yourself: How social identity affects leadership

Millennials at work: What we know and what we need to do (if anything)

Driven to work and enjoyment of work: Effects on managers’ outcomes

Global responsibility: What it takes to get it right

Rater source effects are alive and well after all

2010 WLS annual report on workplace attitudes

The challenge of leading on unstable ground: Triggers that activate social identity faultlines

A historical perspective on nonverbal communication in debates: Implications for elections and leadership

The challenge of leading on unstable ground: Triggers that activate social identity faultlines

Breaking down boundaries in the climate change debate. Case Study/Mark Gerzon.

Are cultural characteristics associated with the relationship between self and others’ ratings of leadership?

Creating coaching cultures: What business leaders expect and strategies to get there

The effects of ethical climate on group and individual level deception in negotiation

Analyze this: Six steps to leveraging people investments

Recognition of emotion in facial expressions and resident advisor effectiveness

A case for homogeneity of personality at the occupational level

The continual need for improvement to avoid derailment: A study of college and university administrators

Corporate social responsibility and sustainable business

Internet recruiting : Effects of website content features on viewers' perceptions of organizational culture

Leadership is more than leaders: Developing leadership culture

Rater source factors represent important subcomponents of the criterion construct space, not rater bias

Direction, alignment, commitment: Toward a more integrative ontology of leadership

Great expectations: Resolving conflicts of leadership style preferences

E-recruitment and the benefits of organizational web appeal

Leadership competencies: An exploratory study of what is important now and what has changed since the terrorist attacks of 9/11

Globally responsible leadership: A leading edge conversation

Power and sensitivity of alternative fit indices in tests of measurement invariance

Examining career-related mentoring and managerial performance across cultures: A multilevel analysis

Interdependent leadership in organizations: Evidence from six case studies

Differences in rate of response to web-based surveys among college students

Bridging boundaries: Meeting the challenge of workplace diversity

Managerial skills: What has changed since the late 1980s

The role and impact of leadership development in supporting ethical action in organisations

Illuminating a cross-cultural leadership challenge: when identity groups collide

An integrative job demand-resource model of burnout & job performance: A meta-analytic path analysis

Cultural intelligence: Its measurement and effects on cultural judgment and decision making, cultural adaptation and task performance

Sending signals: Nonverbal communication can speak volumes

The influence of supervisory‐support climate and unemployment rate on part‐time employee retention: A multilevel analysis

A study of the discrepancy between self-and observer-ratings on managerial derailment characteristics of European managers

A study of managerial derailment characteristics and personality preferences

Identity crisis: Recognizing the triggers of a growing type of conflict

Leadership and the triple bottom line: Bringing sustainability and corporate social responsibility to life

10 trends: A study of senior executives' views on the future

The changing nature of leadership

Everyday leadership: A CCL research white paper

Competencies for leadership development: What's hot and what's not when assessing leadership-implications for organization development

Experience counts: Learning lessons from key events

Family ties: Managers can benefit from personal lives

Commitment to family roles: Effects on managers' attitudes and performance

Generational differences in leader values and leadership behaviors

Talent management in the 21st century: Help your company find, develop, and keep its strongest workers

The use of constructive-developmental theory to advance the understanding of leadership

Effect of workaholism on managerial performance: Help or hindrance?

Keys to motivating tomorrow's workforce

Leading roles: What coaches of women need to know

The mentoring tool

How can knowledge management affect the practice of leadership? A question of leadership

Exploring leadership in times of paradox and complexity

In focus/managing conflict: New challenges in a changing world

In focus/feedback and development: The negatives of focusing only on the positive

Stress and the eye of the beholder

Collision courses: When social identity leads to conflict

Wired to inspire: Leading organizations through adversity

What women leaders want

Personal lives, powerful lessons

Leadership strategies for culture change: Developing change leadership as an organizational core capacity

A question of leadership — Should managers be able to review the ratings their subordinates receive from 360-degree-feedback instruments?

Exploration for development: Developing leadership by making shared sense of complex challenges

Managerial effectiveness in a global context

Benefits of multiple roles for managerial women

Making the connection: Leadership skills and emotional intelligence

E-Leadership: Separating the reality from the hype

Attracting opposites to the leadership ranks

Putting something in the middle: An approach to dialogue

What do global managers really do?

Developing from job experiences: The role of organization-based self-esteem

Gender differences in the intentional use of information in competitive negotiations

Generational differences in leader values and leadership behaviors

Developing from job experiences: The role of organization‐based self‐esteem

Formal developmental relationships: A survey of organizational practices

The impact of 360-degree feedback on planning for career development

Demographic and personality predictors of congruence in multi‐source ratings

Exploring the link between rating congruence and managerial effectiveness

How managers view success. Perspectives of high‐achieving women

Personality and organizations: A test of the homogeneity of personality hypothesis

Executive selection: A research report on what works and what doesn't

Using conflict to improve effectiveness of nurse teams

Does 360‐degree feedback work in different industries? A between‐industry comparison of the reliability and validity of multi‐source performance ratings

Perceptions of female and male managers in the 1990s: Plus ça change . . .

The relationship between the five-factor model of personality and the California Psychological Inventory

Workplace integrity: Differences in perceptions of behaviors and situational factors

Self-other rating agreement and leader effectiveness

Leading creatively: The art of making sense

New directions for research and practice in diversity leadership

A look at derailment today

Age and managerial effectiveness: some interesting trends

Forceful leadership and enabling leadership: you can do both

Interrater reliability and agreement of performance ratings: a methodological comparison

Using perspective taking to manage conflict and affect in teams

Constructs and developmental assessment centers: Further troubling empirical findings

Job satisfaction and creativity style: An unexpected empirical finding

Career derailment: are you at risk? Any of nine fatal flaws can derail even the most successful executive

Why executives derail: Perspectives across time and cultures

Beyond work-family programs: Confronting and resolving the underlying causes of work-personal life conflict

Linking management selection and development through stretch assignments

Promotion decisions as a diversity practice

A glass ceiling survey: Benchmarking barriers and practices

An evaluation of the outcomes of a leadership development program

Enhancing 360-degree feedback for senior executives: How to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks

Can conflict improve team effectiveness?

Construct validity of three self-report measures of creativity

Assessing the developmental components of managerial jobs

Making common sense: Leadership as meaning-making in a community of practice

Gender differences in managers' developmental job experiences

Conflict with less distress: Promoting team effectiveness

An examination of the relationships among self‐perception accuracy, self‐awareness, gender, and leader effectiveness

Creating developmental relationships: Roles and strategies

Issues & observations: The issue of homogeneity within organizations

Why managers have trouble empowering: A theoretical perspective based on concepts of adult development

Learning how to learn from experience: Impact of stress and coping

The expansive executive (2nd ed.)

Job demands and managerial learning in the research and development function

Leadership challenges for human service administrators

Promotion: Beliefs and reality

Effective school principals: Competencies for meeting the demands of educational reform

Executive identity and the hero's story: The voyage of Dodge Morgan and the American Promise

Gender differences in the development of managers: How women managers learn from experience

Twenty-two ways to develop leadership in staff managers

Character shifts: The challenge of improving executive performance through personal growth

Using biographical methods to understand managerial behavior and personality

Preventing derailment: What to do before it's too late

On-the-job development: A conceptual model and preliminary investigation

Diagnosing management development needs: An instrument based on how managers develop

The lessons of looking glass: Management simulations and the real world of action

Why executives lose their balance

The lessons that matter

Eighty-eight assignments for development in place: Enhancing the developmental challenge of existing jobs

The dynamics of management derailment

Developing executives through work experiences

Explanations of success and derailment in upper-level management positions

Key events in executives' lives

The role of procedural and distributive justice in organizational behavior

Creativity in the R&D laboratory

The narrow band

Developmental experiences in managerial work: A literature review

The timing of training, learning, and transfer

Values in action: The meaning of executive vignettes

The warp and woof of the general manager's job

High hurdles: The challenge of executive self-development

Family life cycle, work career patterns, and women's wages at midlife

Fixing relationships through joint action

Off the track: Why and how successful executives get derailed

Intervention in a loosely organized system: An encounter with non-being

Power, influence, and authority: The hazards of carrying a sword

Studies of managerial work: Results and methods

Leadership as a design problem

Appraisal in context: Clashing with organizational realities

Leaders and leadership: Of substance and shadow

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