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Best Leadership Books of 2010

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You Already Know How to Be Great by Alan Fine. Leading Outside the Lines : How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results by Jon R. The Power of Pull : How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison. Easy to say.

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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2010

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Shockproof : How to Hardwire Your Business for Lasting Success by Debra Jacobs, Garrett Sheridan and Juan Pablo González. Leadership Rules : How to Become the Leader You Want to Be by Chris Widener. Succeed : How We Can Reach Our Goals by Heidi Grant Halvorson.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

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It’s like a jazz musi-cian who learns how to play his own instrument and then makes sure to leave room for the rest of the ensemble to contribute their notes. You say what you mean, you don’t make anybody wrong for what has happened, and you create the space for a learning dialogue. Let the music begin.

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Learn or Die

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Ray Dalio and Bridgewater got onto Hess’ radar after Dalio published his Principles in 2010. (It Learn or Die sets out to use the science of learning to answer two important questions: How does one become a better and faster learner? Being smart is really about knowing how to learn.

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Who’s the Real Leader in Your Office?

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Or maybe you’d like to do some self-inventory in order to gauge how far you might rise after four or five additional years. All of these are good reasons for wondering how to accurately assess leadership potential. In other words, even when we know what to look for, we don’t know how to look.

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Best Leadership Books of 2013

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Burkus debunks ten of these myths like the Eureka Myth, the Lone Creator Myth, and the Brainstorming Myth, to help us understand how to ignite what is already inside of us. Best Leadership Books of 2010. These persistent myths hinder our creativity and limit our ability to produce real creative thinking. Best Leadership Books of 2011.

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Missing Ingredients: Finding the Right Team Recipe

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I find that the same is true in my business experiences and my work with civic organizations, where the natural question is why some teams perform better than others, and how to improve the performance of those that are struggling. He retired from Microsoft in 2010 as the President of the Entertainment and Devices Division.

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