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What the Best Leaders Know — and What Skills They Develop

HBR IdeaCast

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The Importance of Being Clear About Your Motivations

Adam Bryant is the Senior Managing Director of the ExCO Group. He wrote the new book, The Leap to Leader, How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership. Adam: Be clear about why you want to do it and do as much work as you can to find out what job you are signing up for so that gap between the theory of the job and the reality of the job is very small.

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