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JUNE 27, 2011

He is the author of Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity, published by Jossey-Bass (2011), one of two books featured at First Friday’s July meeting. Here is a recent post by Josh Linkner. For more information on creativity, visit JoshLinkner.com.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Here is one of the posts by Simon Sinek (on July 27, 2011) at his blog, Re:Focus (Simple Ideas to Help You Thrive). Once you read it, I doubt if you will soon forget it…if ever. To check out Simon’s other resources, please click here and you may also wish to visit here. * * [.].

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

They harness the power of curiosity well. In his research working with more than 400 individuals, he found several key attributes of those who describe themselves as “lucky”: 1. They are creative and curious, in some instances insatiably curious to increase […].

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

These continue to sell, as does The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow (published October, 2011). A few observations. Outliers by Malcom Gladwell is back at #1, and Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg is on the list (at #10). And here […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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APRIL 1, 2011

In case you missed them, these articles have been most popular with the McKinsey Quarterly‘s readers in the first quarter of this year. STRATEGY Have you tested your strategy lately? Ten timeless tests can help you kick the tires on your strategy, and kick up the level of strategic dialogue throughout your company. Click [.].

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Great Companies Jim Stengel Crown Business (2011) How and why “maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. What powers an enterprise to [.]. They’re inseparable.”

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MARCH 29, 2011

Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence Tim Sanders Tyndale House Publishers (2011) A grandmother for all seasons In this his latest book, Tim Sanders creates a context, a frame-of-reference, for several concepts introduced in earlier works, notably in Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go [.].

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future — Just Enough Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Maney Crown Business (2011) The power of prediction-based talent: Intuition on “the other side of complexity” At least a century ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes observed, “I don’t care a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity but [.].

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APRIL 18, 2013

50 Philosophy Classics: THINKING, BEING, ACTING, SEEING – Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2013) The study of philosophy has as its purpose to know…the truth about the ways things are.”

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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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AUGUST 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi Harvard Business Review Press (2011) The strategic power of coherence According to Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi in the first chapter, to achieve and then sustain a competitive advantage, a company “must be resolutely focused and clear-minded (..)

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AUGUST 3, 2011

As One: Individual Action and Collective Power Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley Portfolio/Penguin (2011) How and why “As One behavior” can accomplish almost anything There is so much to be said about what this book offers. Where to begin? Perhaps my purposes are best served by providing a series of five key points: 1. Mehrdad [.].

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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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MARCH 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power 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. * * * When they set out to [.].

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MAY 27, 2011

Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story Peter Guber Crown Business (2011) How and why “a purposeful story, well told, is the greatest tool for business.” Others have their own reasons for praising Peter Guber’s book. Here are three of mine. First, I really appreciate the scope and depth [.].

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AUGUST 9, 2011

The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women: A Portable Life Coach for Creative Women Gail McMeekin Conari Press (2011) How to discover your unique gifts, claim your personal power, and help others to do so Gail McMeekin devotes a separate chapter to each of the 12 “secrets” and, in fact, none is a secret. Rather, [.].

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MARCH 5, 2011

Here is a terrific article written by John Horn for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, and featured online (March 2011). To read the complete article and check out the wealth of free resources as well as obtain subscription I formation, please click here. * * * War games can be a powerful [.].

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others John Daly Yale University Press (2011) How to explain, describe, engage, and convince with maximum power and memorable impact Aristotle was among the first to develop a concept for what we now refer to as “levels of discourse.”

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future–Just Enough Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Maney Crown Business (2011) The power of prediction-based talent: Intuition on “the other side of complexity” At least a century ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes observed, “I don’t care a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity (..)

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APRIL 25, 2011

Fully Charged: How Great Leaders Boost Their Organization’s Energy and Ignite High Performance Heike Bruch and Bernd Vogel Harvard Business Review Press (2011) The power and impact of “organizational energy” As I began to read this brilliant book, I was reminded of how much of value that Tony Schwartz has to say (in The Way [.].

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In his book Eight Steps Ahead: What Separates Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us, published by Portfolio/Penguin (2011), Erik Calonius reveals what makes visionaries tick and how they develop their extraordinary powers.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Taylor for BNET (February 14, 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. * * * Now that Valentine’s Day is but a distant memory, [.].

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MAY 8, 2012

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson Scribner/Simon & Schuster (2004) How and why the brain sciences can help to “open wide the mind’s caged door” I read this book before Steven Johnson’s later works, The Ghost Map (2006) and Where Good Ideas Come From (2011) and then re-read [.].

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MARCH 4, 2011

It is co-authored by Jeffrey Schwartz, Pablo Gaito, and Doug Lennick and featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company (February 22, 2011/ Spring 2011 /Issue 62). Here is an excerpt from one of the most interesting articles I have read in several years.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Schaefer is author of The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time (2011), Return On Influence (2012), and Born to Blog: Building Your Blog for Personal and Business Success One Post at a Time (2013) as well as a globally-recognized educator, speaker, business consultant, and author. His [.].

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MARCH 16, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Francis Gouillart for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 9, 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. * * * There is a major trend [.].

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MARCH 12, 2011

Here is an article written by Herb Schaffner for BNET (March 7, 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. * * * You’re on your second cup of coffee, but you can’t [.].

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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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AUGUST 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Don Peck and featured in the September 2011 issue of The Atlantic. To read the complete article, check out other material, sign up for free email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.

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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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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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MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

In his latest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Habits, Minds, and Actions (to be published by Portfolio/Penguin on March 8 2011), he offers a wealth of practical advice on how best to achieve especially important strategic objectives. For example, how to overcome resistance to project launches such as change initiatives?

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MARCH 21, 2011

It was published by The New York Times (February 26, 2011). Here is an excerpt from an article in which Michael Cieply provides a profile of Peter Guber. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * YEARS ago, when I was trying to produce movies and Peter Guber was the chairman of [.].

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JULY 6, 2011

Aaker Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons (2011) If your “brand” isn’t relevant, neither are you or your company Those who have read any of David Aaker’s previous books already know that he presents information, insights, and counsel that are anchored in specific real-world circumstances within a broad and deep [.].

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Blah Blah Blah: What to Do When Words Won’t Work Dan Roam Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2011) Visual and verbal literacy “on the other side of complexity” Those who have already read one or both of Dan Roam’s previous books, The Back of the Napkin and Unfolding the Napkin, will be pleased to know that in [.].

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MARCH 24, 2011

Here is an article written by George Bradt for the “Talent Management Perspectives&# series featured online by Talent Management magazine (March 2011).

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