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Good Power: Changing a Life. Changing Work. Changing the World.

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T HE TIME TO THINK about power is before you get it. Power is part of leadership, and it can be used in the service of others or for personal gain. Using her life experiences and lessons learned, she draws out principles that define good power. She observes that power that doesn’t produce tangible results is pointless.

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Best Leadership Books of 2011

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Consider : Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking In Your Organization by Daniel Patrick Forrester. Practically Radical : Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself by William C. It’s time to rediscover true leadership—to rethink our fundamental assumptions.

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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2011

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Grow : How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World's Greatest Companies by Jim Stengel. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December. 360 Degrees of Influence : Get Everyone to Follow Your Lead on Your Way to the Top by Harrison Monarth. Screw Business As Usual by Richard Branson.

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Footwashing for Leaders

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Fast Company cofounder Bill Taylor argues in Are You “Humbitious” Enough to Lead? in the Summer 2011 Leader to Leader journal, that “the best way to deliver on an ambitious agenda for your organization is to embrace a sense of “humbition” in your personal style and as part of your leadership repertoire.”. It is indeed. Be a leader.

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Lead With Purpose

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Leaders of purpose tap into the power of narrative to help employees make sense of adversity and have faith in their organization’s ability to not just survive, but continually adapt and thrive. Even in a tough world and a people-sensitive company, it’s a bottom-line fact: the work still has to get done. Instill purpose in others.

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Best Leadership Books of 2013

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You will be remembered through the growth of the people you leveraged your leadership power for. The Myths of Creativity : The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas by David Burkus Creativity is not as divinely-inspired, unpredictable and random a gift as we tend to think it is.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

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Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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