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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2014

Leading Blog

The Carpenter : A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All by Jon Gordon. Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May. The Obstacle Is the Way : The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday. Kidding Ourselves : The Hidden Power of Self-Deception by Joseph T.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

You Win in the Locker Room First : The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life by Jon Gordon and Mike Smith Jon Gordon and NFL coach Mike Smith describe how to transform a mediocre team into a winning one. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2014. It is important for the questions it raises.

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How You Relate to Others - Life-Changing Skills

Building Personal Strength

I took a month-long skills course and read Dr. Thomas Gordon''s now-classic book, P.E.T. Copyright 2014. The distancing this way of talking produces is not good for romance. I first learned about interpersonal skills in the mid-1970s. which stands for "Parent Effectiveness Training." My introduction to these skills was life-changing.

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The U.S. Startup Economy Is in Both Better and Worse Shape than We Thought

Harvard Business Review

That’s true as measured by the number of new businesses, but Guzman and Stern’s measure shows that America’s entrepreneurial potential has increased since the Great Recession and that in 2014 it was almost as high as its 2000 peak. In some places, including the Bay Area, it’s at record highs. startup hubs.).

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Build STEM Skills, but Don’t Neglect the Humanities

Harvard Business Review

It’s a world in which Moore’s Law — the prediction made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would keep doubling at regular intervals – has held true, and Ray Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns has been borne out.

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We Need More Transparency on the Cost of Specialty Drugs

Harvard Business Review

In a July 2014 JAMA article , Troyen Brennan and William Shrank, respectively the chief medical and scientific officers at CVS Caremark, a major pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), estimated that with as many as 3 million eligible HCV patients in the U.S., In one analysis , Gordon D.

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We Need More Transparency on the Cost of Specialty Drugs

Harvard Business Review

In a July 2014 JAMA article , Troyen Brennan and William Shrank, respectively the chief medical and scientific officers at CVS Caremark, a major pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), estimated that with as many as 3 million eligible HCV patients in the U.S., In one analysis , Gordon D.

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