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“How to Be Exceptional” is Destined to be a Landmark Leadership Book

The Practical Leader

I read thousands of books, papers, articles, and blogs on the topic. I’ve also written seven books, hundreds of articles and blogs, facilitated over a thousand retreats and workshops, and delivered hundreds of keynotes on personal, team, and organizational leadership. Leadership has been a lifelong passion for me.

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Love is at the Heart of Strong Leadership

The Practical Leader

In his book, Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands , Kevin Roberts, CEO of the global advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi, explains that fads attract but without love it’s a passing infatuation. In their new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, feature Southwest in their extensive research on “10X companies.”

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In a Distracted World, Solitude Is a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Eric Schmidt, then the CEO of Google, shared a concern with the world : “Every two days, we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization until 2003. In his book, Your Brain at Work , David Rock explains that performance can decrease by up to 50% when a person focuses on two mental tasks at once.

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When Good Management Is a Matter of Life and Death

Harvard Business Review

Jim Collins and I studied this question in our book Great by Choice in which we analyzed CEOs and companies that led successfully in such a world. As I write in my book Collaboration , several barriers get in the way of effective information sharing. How do you lead in a world full of crises, shocks, terror and disruptions?

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What Companies Can Learn from Military Teams

Harvard Business Review

Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2003, he recognized that traditional tactics of warfare were failing in Iraq. The book is co-authored by his colleagues Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell.). soldiers to work cohesively. How should training evolve in that situation?

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