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Best Leadership Books of 2011

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What to Ask the Person in the Mirror : Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential by Robert Steven Kaplan. Better Under Pressure : How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others by Justin Menkes. From Bud to Boss : Transition to Remarkable Leadership by Kevin Eikenberry and Guy Harris.

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Thoughts on the Presidency

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But then as now, there is no greater attribute for a ruler than humility built on an accurate assessment of his own limits, from which the finest cunning emerges.” — Robert Kaplan, Warrior Politics. “In Newt Gingrich, 2011. You can’t just appoint smart people.”

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Four ways to get started on obtaining constructive performance and strategic feedback by calling on junior colleagues

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Kaplan in his recently published book, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential, published by Harvard Business School Press (2011). Here are some invaluable ideas provided by Robert S.

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Seasoned Leaders Have Balance

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I like the way author and blogger Mary Jo Asmus stated it in a recent blog— “Connect with your heart when your head wants to rule. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. Harvard Business Review Press, 2011. Some executives fail to identify the danger signals because they repress their feelings as if feelings are something to be avoided.

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Smart Leaders Don’t Just Learn, They Teach

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Taylor for BNET (January 4, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. Here is an article written by William C. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Ever since the publication, nearly two decades ago, of [.].

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

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HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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