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JANUARY 10, 2012

Koehn that was featured in The New York Times (December 24, 2011). Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nancy F. To read the complete article, please click here. Photo Credit: Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute * * * A HUNDRED years ago this month, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and four teammates [.].

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JANUARY 28, 2011

Taylor for BNET (January 19, 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. * * * The unexpected news that Steve Jobs will take a [.]

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JANUARY 16, 2012

From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership Harry M. 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. [.].

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JANUARY 3, 2012

A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.].

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JANUARY 28, 2011

The Elements of Power: Lessons on Leadership and Influence Terry R. Bacon AMACOM (2011) Bacon explains his own model of power and influence: “There are five sources of power that stem from your position and participation in an organization: role power; resource power; information power, network power; and reputation.”

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AUGUST 22, 2011

I read with interest a recent entry in the Lessons in Leadership series, authored by columnist and best-selling author Harvey MacKay, entitled “Benefits to Reading Good Books are Many.&# You can find the complete article in the Saturday, August 20, 2011 edition of the Orange Country Register (p.

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MAY 3, 2012

TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest Moments Douglas Conant and Mette Norgaard Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) How to prepare for and then embrace the privilege of being of meaningful service to others This volume endorses the principles of servant leadership with which Robert K.

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APRIL 18, 2012

McDonald Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why organizational success with social media “is fundamentally a leadership and management challenge” I agree with Anthony Bradley and Mark McDonald that leaders [.]. Bradley and Mark P.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an excellent article written by James Quigley and featured (on October 19, 2011) in The Washington Post’s “On Leadership” roundtable on the best managers in baseball today. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * This piece is part of an On Leadership [.].

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In the June 2011 issue of Harvard Business Review, “The Paradox of Excellence,” Thomas J. DeLong and Sara DeLong explain how and why high achievers often undermine their leadership by being afraid to show their limitations. Here are some behaviors that, although they may help someone to achieve success, can also get in the way. [.].

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and Do Mark Miller Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2011) High-impact leadership + high-impact teams = high-impact community Mark Miller is the co-author with Ken Blanchard of a previous book, The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do, now in a second edition.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

.” One of the best exercises for learning how to do that is what Mike Figliuolo introduces in his new book, One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, published by Jossey-Bass (October, 2011). [.].

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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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APRIL 18, 2012

McDonald Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why organizational success with social media “is fundamentally a leadership and management challenge” I agree with Anthony Bradley and Mark McDonald that leaders [.]. Bradley and Mark P.

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JULY 29, 2011

Great Again: Revitalizing America’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Henry R. Nothhaft with David Kline Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Why are so many middle-class communities being “hollowed out”? With David Kline’s assistance, Henry R. Years ago, “America [once] led [.].

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JUNE 17, 2011

Prescription for Excellence: Leadership Lessons for Creating a World-Class Customer Experience from UCLA Health System Joseph A. Michelli McGraw-Hill (2011) A vigorous and comprehensive analysis of UCLA Health System As indicated in previously published books, Joseph A. He has an almost (not quite) insatiable curiosity to [.].

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Great Again: Revitalizing America’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Henry R. Northhaft Harvard Business Press (2011) Why are so many middle-class communities being “hollowed out&# ? With David Kline’s assistance, Henry R.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth – and Why Others Fail Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why to create a “magic mix” of innovation leadership with innovation processes Year after year, annual lists of the most highly creative organizations include “the usual suspects”: Amazon, (..)

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FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Maciariello for the Drucker Exchange (January 31, 2011), sponsored by the Drucker Institute. The Drucker Exchange (the DX) is a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. Here is the latest entry to Joe’s Journal written by Josepth A.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Spark: How Creativity Works Julie Burstein Harper/HarperCollins (2011) The process by which to “ignite” creative and innovative thinking that has breakthrough impact I have read and reviewed most of the books published during the past decade whose authors focus on leadership and/or management of creativity, innovation, and/or collaboration within a (..)

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Franz McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why the Toyota Way principles can achieve excellence in every part of almost any organization all the time I have read and reviewed all of Jeffrey Liker’s previously published [.]. The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence to Achieve Superior Performance Jeffrey K.

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JANUARY 7, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Succeeding as an Entrepreneur Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to create new businesses and new markets by managing risks effectively This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Hansen Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011)Additional and even more valuable revelations about “the principles that distinguish great organizations from good ones” For as long as I can remember, Jim Collins has been a research-driven business [.].

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MARCH 10, 2012

Snook No Limit Publishing (2011) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Wealth Matters: Rebuild and Restore Your Life, Victorious!, Makeover Edition Muzafer Najf and Chris J. ” Henry Ford Of course wealth matters. credit card debt [.].

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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. You can read her entire letter here. Here are some key highlights. As a candidate, [.].

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Hansen Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011) Additional and even more valuable revelations about “the principles that distinguish great organizations from good ones” For as long as I can remember, Jim Collins has been a research-driven [.].

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JUNE 2, 2011

DeLong Harvard Business Review Press (2011) A new model for anxiety management by “high-need-for-achievement professionals” In the Preface, Thomas J. Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Thomas J.

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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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MARCH 14, 2011

Here is an article written by Margaret Heffernan for BNET (March 3, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Multi-tasking has become an epidemic.

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MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here is an article written by John Baldoni for BNET (February 17, 2011) , The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * When change initiatives fail, the culprit is often a [.].

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Harvard Business School Press (2011) Valuable lessons from 36 CEOs who create simultaneously value that has both economic and social impact The CEOs featured in this book agreed to participate (..)

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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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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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MARCH 23, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * We’ve all heard the claims, the theories, and [.].

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JUNE 3, 2011

Here is the first portion of an article featured by Talent Management magazine. To see the list of 48 companies, check out all the resources, and sign up for a free subscription to the Talent Management and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * The National Business Group on [.].

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APRIL 16, 2011

Here is an article written by John Baldoni for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * If you ever find yourself having to persuade others of the goodness of [.].

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