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Organisations are not doing enough to ensure Baby Boomers pass on their hard-won knowledge and experience to the next generation before heading off into retirement.

Still ignoring succession planning

Why helping your redundant workers is the right thing to do

Supporting redundant workers through outplacement services is not just morally right, its a highly effective way of retaining and motivating those left behind.

It's often assumed one of the pluses about Generation Y employees is that they're good at adapting to change. Not so, says new research – and they're also flighty, badly organised, poor at planning and less productive.

Execs unhappy with their leadership development

Leadership development seems to be going nowhere fast, with most senior executives dissatisfied with their organization's development offerings.

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Thought leaders

Dan Bobinski

Positive thinking: does it really get results?

Michael Travis

Can big company executives suceed in a start-up?

Wayne Turmel

I'm a GOOF Not a MOOF

Peter Vajda

My lawn mower made me do it!

Janet Howd

If you want your voice to carry, carry it well.

Robert Heller

Management styles: why things go wrong

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Spiritual intelligence: managing cultures

Success as a modern business leader means being able to see and harness the invisible energetic fuel that drives achievement. And this requires spiritual intelligence - the space, freedom and safety to bring our whole selves to work.

Dan Bobinski

Positive thinking: does it really get results?

The idea that positive thinking can affect our lives for the better has been gaining momentum over the past 80 years, and even more so recently. So does the concept work? I dare say it does - within reason.

Advice Clinic

Surviving a bullying boss

Linda's experience with an aggressive, abrasive boss epitomizes the distress and confusion that bullying causes in the workplace. The Boss Whisperer, Laura Crawshaw, has some invaluable advice to help Linda deal with her predicament.

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Management Mentors

Roger Martin on integrative thinking

Roger Martin, Dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management in Toronto, tells Des Dearlove that the traditional preoccupation with what a leader does is misplaced. It's what they think and at the decisions they make that matter.

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