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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. We figure it might provide some gift-giving ideas for anyone who is stuck!

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

Return on Character : The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win by Fred Kiel In Return on Character , Fred Kiel has put numbers to the notion that good leadership aimed at promoting the common good, not just individual, winner-take-all acquisition can be good business. H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. A major focus of my writing and leadership/culture development career has been dealing with change. Functional Accountability to Horizontal Teamwork.

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Is Office Politics a White Man’s Game?

Harvard Business Review

Developing political skill reduces stress and enhances performance, reputation, promotability, and career progression at work. A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. Recent research does not support this idea.

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The Values Crisis Shaking the Republican Party

Harvard Business Review

I have them discuss an employee who generates tens of millions of dollars in profits but fails to live up to the teamwork values the CEO is trying to promulgate by constantly berating colleagues and subordinates. This is a principle I’ve tried to teach to hundreds of MBA students. Other senior Republicans ducked the convention.

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