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Best Leadership Books of 2011

Leading Blog

W E HAVE more recorded information about leadership now than at any other time in history. These books speak to our need to rethink our core thinking, beliefs and motivations—to do the uncomfortable. It’s time to rediscover true leadership—to rethink our fundamental assumptions. Leadership matters now more than ever.

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Best Leadership Books of 2010

Leading Blog

While books about these ideas can seem boring they can, if we let them, take us to a higher level. As reading goes, the books listed here may not be as exciting as how-can-I-leverage-other-people’s-money nor are they going to be paradigm-shifting as in why-hasn’t-somebody-thought-of-this-before. Best Leadership Books of 2008.

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Free Download: Best-Selling Book on Leadership, Employee Engagement

Michael Lee Stallard

Mohammed Al-Zaki on October 22nd, 2010 Thanks Michael for the online presentation and this book. I also recommend you take a look at the free e-book. About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out. 3 Comments so far Cristin on October 21st, 2010 Thank you! I appreciate your efforts.

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Why Character-Based Leadership? (A Book Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

In a previous post, we shared how the Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. . Why Character-Based Leadership? Do you see the emphasis on our human quest for something more?

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Leadership Development "Moneyball"

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was originally published in SmartBrief on Leadership 7/25/2013: “Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to get the most production out of his team by spending the least amount of money. Source: Great Leadership.

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Space Leadership Comes Before Selfies

Lead Change Blog

When you meet a leader like Bob Cabana and have a quick, fun “social media moment,” it’s easy to be lulled into thinking “gosh he makes leadership look easy.”. In Bob Cabana’s case, he demonstrated leadership during one of NASA’s darkest moments, long before selfies existed. Leadership After the Columbia Disaster.

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.