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Stepping into a management role isn't just a change of task - it's a fundamental shift of identity. To be successful, first-time managers must make the transition from a person who gets the work done themselves to a person who gets work done through others.

What do you do when teamwork doesn't work? The solution is collaboration, says CCL's Edward Marshall, and, yes, it is possible.

Leaders everywhere need to develop and adjust their behaviors to work in a global environment. But what works well in one setting may not in another.

Christiaan De Wilde, CEO of international biotech firm Innogenetics, has a background in finance and an eye for innovation.

An interview with Chris Musselwhite, President and CEO of Discovery Learning. Musselwhite, president and CEO of Discovery Learning, believes top leaders need an accurate picture of how the people and the systems affect their organization's ability to change and adapt. He recently spoke with CCL about why change is such a challenge.

In a column for the Harvard Business Review's six-week blog series, "Imagining the Future of Leadership," CCL's Charles Palus argued that our interdependent reality requires companies to create a new kind of leadership culture.

Learning to be a more effective leader is the result of a wide range of challenging experiences.

CCL's Doug Riddle reminds us that people around us pay much more attention to what we don't say and what we don't follow up on than what we actually do.

How do talented managers develop into effective senior leaders? Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development proposes some groundbreaking answers, providing strategies and tools to round out leadership skills and create a steady pipeline of top executives.

Center for Creative Leadership research finds improvements in employee satisfaction and job commitment during a tough economy.

If you have an interest in the work style of Millennials and how they differ from other generations, 12 articles in a special issue of the Journal of Business and Psychology, edited by David Altman and Jennifer Deal of the Center for Creative Leadership, thoroughly explore the subject.

It's very possible for people to change and become more effective professionals in the process. In a BusinessWeek.com column, CCL CEO John Ryan explores how to encourage them to do it.

CCL senior vice president Bill Pasmore explores the importance of aligning leadership development with long-term strategy in "Who Will Run Your Company?", which appears in the Summer 2010 issue of Conference Board Review.

When the Center for Creative Leadership's flagship Leadership Development Program (LDP)® rolled out in June in its revised format, it included a new broad-based personality assessment - the WorkPlace Big Five Profile 4.0™.

"We trust people to be adults in so many areas of their lives," says journalist and author Brian Carney. "But when they walk through the doors at work, we insist they need detailed rules and descriptions for how to do a job."

Put an entrepreneur, a radiologist, an engineer, a manufacturing manager and a director of a global internet company in the same room. Add in some R&D managers, corporate executives, designers, strategists and a few 20-somethings. You've got a high-energy meeting of the Association for Managers of Innovation.

Too often we lead and live on autopilot: getting through the day, putting out the latest fire at work or home, responding to what's in front of us. There is an alternative, says Clint Sidle, author of This Hungry Spirit: Your Need for Basic Goodness.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a GPS navigator for leader development? CCL's new Leader Development Roadmap is the next best thing.

In April, renowned executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith visited CCL's global headquarters in Greensboro, NC. Goldsmith, who made best seller lists in 2007 with What Got You Here Won't Get You There, talked with CCL President John Ryan about his newest bestseller, Mojo: How To Get It, How To Keep It, How To Get It Back If You Lose It.

Fragmentation is one of healthcare's major problems and one solution is leadership.