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First Look: Leadership Books for November 2013

Leading Blog

The Practical Drucker : Applying the Wisdom of the World''s Greatest Management Thinker by William A. Leading Through Uncertainty : How Umpqua Bank Emerged from the Great Recession Better and Stronger than Ever by Raymond P. Hatching Twitter : A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton.

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The World’s Top 50 Leadership and Management Thinkers

N2Growth Blog

Those recognized previously have included Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Tom Peters, Richard Branson, Clayton Christensen and other esteemed thinkers. Just today, Thinkers50 announced their shortlist for the 2013 awards.

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Voting ends Sept 1st for Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker Award for 2013

Marshall Goldsmith

Dear Friends, We are nearing the 2013 Thinkers50 biannual awards. Previous winners of the Top Management Thinker Award have included Peter Drucker (2001 & 2003), Michael Porter (2005), CK Prahalad (2007 & 2009), and Clayton Christensen (2011). If you haven’t yet heard of Thinkers50, here is a little background.

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For 2013, Focus on Your Learning – and on Remembering to Remember What You Learned Earlier

First Friday Book Synopsis

” (Peter Drucker) “Through learning, we re-create ourselves.” ” (Peter Senge) ————— For 2013, Focus on Your Learning – and on Remembering to Remember What You Learned Earlier (And, you know, don’t you, that until you can do something, and then you actually do [.].

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. Drucker was writing about knowledge workers in the late 1960s. And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage.

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Michael Nanfito: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein and Challenges: Massive Open Online Courses in Colleges and Universities Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Impacts James O''Toole Judgment Calls Lao-Tse Michael Nanfito: An interview by Bob Morris MOOCs: Opportunities Oscar Wilde Paul Schoemaker Peter Drucker Tao Te Ching the ideology of comfort and the tyranny (..)

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The Joy of Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Joy of Strategy: A Business Plan for Life Allison Rimm bibliomotion books + media (2013) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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