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leadership can be learnt in a certain way. There are parameters that define a good or a bad leader. But there are managers who are more successful than others, even if each of them knows his or her leadership curriculum by heart. As often, it depends on emotions and on people skills which makes the difference between the two groups. To get the gifted people for leadership positions in business is hard work for recruitment consultants, as they describe it in our „Organizational Development“ section. Why focusing on the core is crucial in an economic downturn like nowadays is explained by author Chris Zook in the „Tough Times“ section.

Strategy & Execution
Innovation is an expensive issue. It typically takes hundreds and thousands of failed experiments before a successful product or service is created. How do entrepreneurs cope with these difficulties - keep innovation alive by attracting investors when the economy is melting? This is when communicative soft skills are badly needed. Rare skills is some tech-dominated staff of smaller companies.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2127

Organizational Development
As leadership is a multi-faceted term, it is a difficult business to find the right candidates for it. Two experts of the HBS‘s Program for Leadership Development talk about the requirements for future leaders and the difficulties to find them. The shortage of quality staff means hard work for recruitment consultants and company managers, especially in a more and more competitive marketplace, as Karalyn Brown reports for Management Today.

http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/624131/how-find-next-leader/

http://www.aim.com.au/DisplayStory.asp?ID=605…