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Best Leadership Books of 2011

Leading Blog

W E HAVE more recorded information about leadership now than at any other time in history. It’s time to rediscover true leadership—to rethink our fundamental assumptions. Leadership matters now more than ever. From Values to Action : The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership by Harry M. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

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12 Reads for 2012

LDRLB

Perhaps 2011’s greatest text on organizational creativity and innovation. The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. The single must-read book on leadership. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Creative People Must Be Stopped by David Owens. Adapt by Tim Harford. Yes, this is shameless self-promotion.

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WOMEN: Moments in Your Day

Women in the LEAD

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? Putting Our Differences to Work The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership and High Performance by Debbe Kennedy   ? Berrett -Koehler ?

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Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. Yet stories like the one above about Steve Jobs made us wonder: might there be some hidden benefits to overconfidence in the context of corporate leadership? Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

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How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection

Harvard Business Review

Brain science, popularized in Daniel Kahneman’s book , has shown that this type of “slow thinking” is negatively correlated with “fast thinking,” as might be employed when driving a car or solving a simple sum. What would I do differently if I could recreate the company from a blank state?

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