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2012 Best Books on Leadership, Innovation and Strategy

LDRLB

It’s the season for lists and as 2012 begins to wind down, we thought we’d review what we’ve read this year and put together a list of our own. If you haven’t there’s still time left in 2012 to dig into these great books. Leadership. How Will You Measure Your Life by Clay Christensen, James Allworth & Karen Murphy.

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New Year. New Leader.

Lead Change Blog

Perhaps it is some combination of them, some attainable format for effective leadership that requires work, certainly, but that also works. Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world.

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A Leap Year Lesson on Correcting Leadership Drift

Harvard Business Review

Not a bad metaphor for work, life, and leadership. Just look at Kodak in the past few months leading up to leap year 2012. Easier than we all think (and Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the best books around on leadership drift). When this "leadership drift ratio" exceeds 2:1, watch out.

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Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader

Harvard Business Review

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.". The practice of mindful leadership gives you tools to measure and manage your life as you're living it.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 11/26/12)

First Friday Book Synopsis

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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Best Leadership Books of 2012

Leading Blog

T HE WAYS we have thought about leadership have not always served us well. We have tended to think of leadership as something outside and above the rest. If leadership isn’t among, it will let us down. What is your approach to leadership? How has your leadership style changed? Best Leadership Books of 2010.

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LeadershipNow 140: July 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2012 that you might have missed: " Leading in the 21st century ". Six Extras that build influence & leadership. Six Extras that build influence & leadership. Bill_George: Fellow HBS professor Clay Christensen shares 15 business theories to improve your life.

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