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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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LeadershipNow 140: August 2011 Compilation

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Here are a selection of tweets from August 2011 that you might have missed: From @wallybock: Grading Steve Jobs: A+, A, and Incomplete. BloombergTV: Harvard's Kaplan on Leadership Techniques - Video. TheAtlantic: At least 25 CEOs earned more than their companies paid in income taxes in 2010. NYT: The Elusive Big Idea via @DPForrester.

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