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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The Wisdom of Bees: What the Hive Can Teach Business About Leadership, Efficiency, and Growth Michael O’Malley Portfolio/Penguin (2010) “What they have done has worked for them”…and can work for us as well. I read this book when it was first published more than a year ago and have since purchased several dozen copies to [.].

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an excellent article co-authored by Joanna Barsh, Josephine Mogelof and Caroline Webb for The McKinsey Quarterly (October 2010).

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

The Communicators: Leadership in an Age if Crisis Richard S.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Rogers Yale University Press (2010) Here’s the challenge: our future networks can “make us not only more connected but, let us hope, more human.” The Network Is Your Customer: 5 Strategies Tto Thrive in a Digital Age David L. I am grateful to Thomas Kuhn and then to Joel Barker for filling one of my [.].

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Meister and Karie Willyerd Harper Business/An im print of HaroerCollins (2010) How and why the HR function has become so much more important than many (most?) The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies, Attract, Develop, and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today Jeanne C.

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JULY 7, 2011

Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary Joel Kurtzman Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons (2010) “Organizations themselves are mindless, so if people don’t repair them, no one will.”

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MAY 2, 2011

Turner John Wiley & Sons (2010) How to “break through all that noise and visual stimulation to get to the core of the customer” What we have here is another business fable, a very popular sub-genre for business book authors [.]. Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle Kevin Daum with Daniel A.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2011

John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership consultant, coach, author and educator. At sea level in Orlando, Florida, he spoke to nearly one thousand USAF/JAG commissioned and non-commissioned officers on leadership and communication. He has taught what it means to inspire at the top of a mountain in the Canadian Rockies.

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APRIL 17, 2011

The Drucker Exchange (the DX) is a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Exchange (DX) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank and action tank [.].

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MARCH 2, 2011

Kets de Vries by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine (Mqy 10, 2010), published by Booz & Company. To read the complete interview, please click here. * * * INSEAD’s expert on leadership development clarifies how self-awareness can break the destructive pattern of corporate narcissism. Anyone [.].

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Lead with Purpose: Giving Your Organization a Reason to Believe in Itself John Baldoni AMACOM (2012) The multi-dimensional “why” of initiative and fulfillment for organizations as well as for individuals I selected my review’s title because, in his latest book, John Baldoni focuses on how and why having (or not having) a sense of purpose [.]. (..)

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JULY 13, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Baldoni for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here.* * * “In a market that’s become extremely lean and mean… individuals who [.].

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JULY 13, 2011

Previously, I posted excerpts from articles that comprise a series sponsored by Harvard Business Review. Now, all of the articles plus other material have been published both in a single volume and as a PDF and the collection is for sale for only $19.95. To learn more about this book, please click here. * * [.].

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