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Talent Accelerating

How Focusing on Your Team’s Development Multiplies Your Potential

Your boss designates you as high-potential talent, but it is your team that determines whether you can deliver the results to achieve that designation. You have to think carefully about who works for you, who you hire, fire, promote, and develop, and how. You have to be as interested in your team members’ potential as your own. This is the core message of our second X factor, talent accelerating.

One of the most successful high potentials we’ve worked with, Eric, discovered this lesson painfully. In an early assignment, he had a mandate to turn around a product in serious decline. He devoted his first few months to undertaking an extensive listening tour ...

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