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AUGUST 3, 2011

Reagan on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Great Communicator James M. Strock Serve to Lead Press (2011) Up front, I need to acknowledge that I do not share James Strock’s high regard for Ronald Reagan’s performance as governor of California and then as president of the United States.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Christine Lagarde, a candidate for the position of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), made the following statement to the IMF Executive Board on June 23, 2011. Before she was selected as the new Managing Director, Ms. You can read her entire letter here. Here are some key highlights. As a candidate, [.].

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APRIL 23, 2011

The New How: Creating Business Solutions through Collaborative Strategy Nilofer Merchant O’Reilly Media (2011) Why do so many strategies fail? Usually the fault lies with the strategy itself and/or how it was formulated, and/or how it was executed.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer (January 19, 2011), an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa J. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Thanks to McKinsey & Company and its Quarterly, those of us who admire Dan Ariley and his work have access to an especially enlightening interview (February 2011). Although [.]

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MAY 13, 2011

David Kord Murray is a former aerospace scientist, Fortune 500 executive, chief innovation officer of two major companies, inventor, and software entrepreneur. In Borrowing Brilliance (published by Gotham Books/Penguin Group, 2011) he explains the origins and evolution of a business idea by [.].

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt of an article co-authored by Ram Charan and Michael Sisk for strategy+business magazine (February 7, 2011), published by Booz & Company.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results Roger Connors and Tom Smith Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2011) A comprehensive, cohesive, and cost-effective methodology to achieve breakthrough results In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests that much (most?)

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How best practices and expert advice can help you and your associates make smarter decisions In their classic book, Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis assert that what really matters “is not how (..)

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

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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MARCH 19, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Adam Richardson for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 2011). To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * We recently hosted at frog [.].

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JANUARY 16, 2012

Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) How and why leadership is about the growth and positive change that almost anyone can bring about while working with others All organizations need effective leadership at all levels and in all areas of their operations. [.]. From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership Harry M.

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JANUARY 15, 2012

The Optimization Edge: Reinventing Decision Making to Maximize All Your Company’s Assets Steve Sashihara McGraw-Hill (2011) How to make complex decisions and recommendations about the best way to deploy assets In a book I very much admire, Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis assert that what really matters “is (..)

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JUNE 13, 2011

Josh Linkner is the New York Times bestselling author of Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity, named one of the top 30 business books of 2011. He is the CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners, a venture capital firm rebuilding urban areas through technology and entrepreneurship.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Velocity Manifesto: Harnessing Technology, Vision, and Culture to Future-Proof Your Organization Scott Klososky Greenlead Book Group (2011) Digital plumbing + high-beam strategy + high-velocity culture = business success (however defined) Almost immediately, Scott Klososky establishes and then sustains a direct, personal, and at times almost confrontational (..)

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APRIL 13, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rick Wartzman for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine’s “The Drucker Difference&# series (April 8, 2011). The key is to concentrate first and foremost on employees’ strengths. To read the complete article, check out other resources, [.].

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MARCH 22, 2011

Army of Entrepreneurs: Create an Engaged and Empowered Workforce for Exceptional Business Growth Jennifer Prosek AMACOM (2011) How to grow great gardeners The title of my review refers to what I believe is Jennifer Prosek’s key point in this book: To paraphrase, Think like a gardener and decide what you want to grow, when and [.].

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MARCH 18, 2011

Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us Erik Calonius Portfolio/Penguin Group (2011) Dreamers think about it…visionaries see it and then make it happen, at whatever cost The material in Ten Steps Ahead is based on what Erik Calonius learned during his research (including interviews of various business visionaries) (..)

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MAY 22, 2011

Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary Frank Luntz Hyperion/Harper Collins (2011) A brilliant recycling of valuable business material Frank Luntz identifies what he characterizes as “The 15 Universal Attributes of Winners” (on Page 2) and then “The Nine P’s of Winning: What It Takes to Get to the Top” [.].

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MARCH 12, 2011

Cook to the “Talent Management Perspectives&# series featured by Talent Management magazine (March 2011). Here is another contribution by Elizabeth Bernhard and Joseph A.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Moore Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011) How to free your organization from “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” The quotation in the title of this review is from Leading Change in which James O’Toole brilliantly explains why most [.].

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DECEMBER 2, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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AUGUST 15, 2011

Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage Scott Keller and Colin Price John Wiley & Sons (2011) How to achieve and then sustain both outstanding leadership and management throughout the given enterprise Scott Keller and Colin Price acknowledge that although there is a “multitude” of books about business leadership (..)

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Collaborating Effectively Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why to establish and then nourish mutually high-impact partnerships within and beyond your organization This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in HBR.

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MARCH 28, 2012

a consulting and training company specializing in strategic planning and executive development. Paul Schoemaker is the founder and chairman of Decision Strategies International, Inc., He is also a co-founder and chairman of Strategic Radar Inc. He specializes in decision [.].

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Stephanie Niven written by Cleo Thompson (London), founder of The Gender Blog, for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Anderson for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from a profile of Mika Meyer (Partner, Morrison & Foerster) written by Melissa J. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Here is an article written by Mike Prokopeak for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * Just because employees are highly engaged doesn’t mean they’re going to stick around. And [.].

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APRIL 5, 2011

Here is a terrific article featured by the Drucker Exchange (DX) based on the latest program in its Drucker Business Forum series sponsored by Claremont Business University. * * * We caught an interesting talk at the Drucker Business Forum this morning [March 31, 2011] by James Quigley, the CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and [.].

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