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May 2025
19m 37s

Don’t Just Coach Your Employees—Teach Th...

Harvard Business Review
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Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, encourages leaders to approach their direct reports like teachers. As Finkelstein explains, being a teacher-leader means continually meeting face to face with employees to communicate lessons about professionalism, points of craft, and life. He says it’s easy t ... Show More
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