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Hay Group's 2010 Best Companies for Leadership

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Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, released its 2010 Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20 list. The study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies develop current and future leaders. According to Hay Group’s study, all of the Top 20 companies report that everyone at every level of the organization has the opportunity to develop and practice the capabilities needed to lead others, compared to less than 70 percent of all other

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4 Building Blocks of Courage

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As the globe begins to shake faster and faster, the answer is not to hunker down and erect barriers, but to take action. “Our world needs leaders capable of collaborating with other cultures sand taking prudent risks to create a new range of opportunities,” says Blythe McGarvie author of Shaking the Globe. That kind of leadership requires courage. McGarvie describes courage as a firmness of mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2011

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Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February. As One by Marhdad Baghai and James Quigley. Split-Second Persuasion : The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds by Kevin Dutton. My Life in Leadership : The Journey and Lessons Learned Along the Way by Frances Hesselbein. Unusually Excellent : The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2011 Compilation

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Here are a selection of tweets from January 2011: "Civility is part of the foundation for bringing out people’s brilliance." The Degeneration of Decorum. 90% of the Best Companies expect employees to lead, regardless if they have a formal position of authority. Hay Group Report. @TalentAnalytics: “ You cannot delegate culture.” - Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO Great read from @BoozCompany.

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Deep Factors Shaping the Global Economy

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Outrageous Fortunes is a book about what in economic terms, could be. It is a provocative guide to global trends. Instead of focusing on moment–by-moment market predictions, author Daniel Altman, looks at deeper, underlying economic factors that we frequently overlook in the short-term view. Fundamentally, he states that “ over long periods of time, countries with similar deep factors tend to reach similar limits of growth and prosperity.”.

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The Power of Meeting People Where They Are

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In Split-Second Persuasion , Cambridge psychologist Kevin Dutton asks why some of us better at the art of persuasion than others. He recounts a story about Winston Churchill’s encounter with war hero James Allen Ward that illustrates the power of meeting people where they are: In the summer of 1941, Flight Sergeant James Allen Ward was awarded a Victoria Cross for clambering onto the wing of his Wellington bomber and—while flying 13,000 feet above the Zuider Zee—extinguishing a fire in the starb

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