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October 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the October 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. With football season well underway as well as the upcoming World Series (along with many other sports), it’s a great month for sports analogies! Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Is it a Myth? Let’s Get Started.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. Marshall’s exciting new research on engagement will be published in his upcoming book Triggers (Crown, 2015).' I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department.

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February 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Joel Garfinkle of Career Advancement Blog contributed Seven Ways To Sell Your Ideas to Management. ” Find Jim on Twitter at @72keys.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer Leadership BS is a compendium of human nature. By creating an awareness of our environment and identifying our own triggers we can be a force for adding value in other people’s lives by triggering something good in others. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

Zak, PhD : One-third of business leaders surveyed in 2015 said that retaining colleagues is their number one concern. Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. Guest post by Paul J. Everyone knows that people are mobile.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015. He began his career at the U.S. He started his career at Merrill Lynch & Co.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2017

Leading Blog

The Captain Class : The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams by Sam Walker The best leaders in sports history were not mesmerizing characters. But what if you could know yourself just a little bit better—and with this small improvement, get a big payoff…not just in your career, but in your life?

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