article thumbnail

December 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the December 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For our December edition, we took a page out of last December’s Carnival of HR post and asked about books you have read which have made a difference in your leadership journey. But the books on this list were worth the effort. Let’s Get Started.

article thumbnail

The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

From Everybody Matters which helps us to look at those we lead as family to Becoming Steve Jobs that looks at the development of a leader as a life-long process, the following books help us to do just that. Leadership BS is an important book because it is a dose of reality. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2014.

Books 150
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Best Leadership Books of 2017

Leading Blog

It’s typically not the player with the highest market value. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2016. Best Leadership Books of 2015. Best Leadership Books of 2014. So that’s what we continue to get. And so teams choose the wrong people to lead them. They promote people with the wrong characteristics.

Books 225
article thumbnail

Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

He is director of the CAA Group of Companies, an adjudicator with the Capital Markets Tribunal, and from 2015 to 2019 was a commissioner with the Ontario Securities Commission. Their new book, with co-author Gerald Seijts, is The Character Compass: Transforming Leadership for the 21st Century (Routledge, Oct. 30, 2023).

article thumbnail

Best Leadership Books To Read In 2015

Eric Jacobson

As you think about what business books you want to read next year, how about adding to the list at least one book from the list below. Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

Books 78
article thumbnail

Seven Accelerants of Growth To Help You Succeed

QAspire

Whitney Johnson wrote a book titled “ Disrupt Yourself ” in 2015 that effectively underlines the need to take right risks proactively and offers very useful stories and insights on how to disrupt yourself. In her recent newsletter , Whitney revisited “ The Seven Accelerants of Growth ” that were outlined originally in her book.

article thumbnail

Can Performance Pay Encourage Creativity Among Gig Workers?

The Horizons Tracker

As the internet has flourished, the job of the humble writer has become that much harder as the market has become flooded by professionals and hobbyists alike. Research from Harvard Business School highlights how motivational it is for book authors when they’re offered a guaranteed cut of any sales of their book.