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12 Reads for 2012

LDRLB

In that spirit, we’ve compiled 12 books we feel every leader or aspiring leader should commit to read, or re-read in 2012. This is the classic text on how to persuade others and resist persuasion yourself based on solid research into psychology. Perhaps 2011’s greatest text on organizational creativity and innovation.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

In 2012, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Kodak name became synonymous with a resistance to change, but it’s not just innovation the company lacked.

Film 150
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Lead Change like a Slinky®

Lead Change Blog

Biologically ironic to our human nature, most people adamantly resist change. Change can also offer an enormous amount of benefits, like growth in a career, innovation for the future, and discovering new possibilities in life. The Top Ten Leadership Commandments (2012) by Hans Finzel. But we don’t need to fear change.

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Innovative Ideas to Watch in 2012

Harvard Business Review

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. I recently spoke to John about his research.

How To 76
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An Organizational Growth Cap Theory

Ron Edmondson

Interestingly, after I typed that first sentence, I Googled “ Most Innovative Companies ” and found Fast’s list for 2012. Then I think of churches I know…some of the most growing, Kingdom-impacting churches I know are also the most innovative…the most open to continual change. See for yourself HERE.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? Five new products (we had one mostly in the bag), 11 full time employees (a 7% increase in our Ohio based employment) and $1.7