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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2015

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Peter Drucker''s Five Most Important Questions : Enduring Wisdom for Today''s Leaders by Peter F. Drucker, Joan Snyder Kuhl and Frances Hesselbein. Road to Power : How GM''s Mary Barra Shattered the Glass Ceiling by Laura Colby. Becoming Your Best : Bringing Your Best Self to Work by Harry M. For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273.

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The End of Power & A Year with Peter Drucker, our Book Selections for the February 6, 2015 First Friday book Synopsis

First Friday Book Synopsis

A Year With Peter Drucker. The End of Power, Mark Zuckerberg’s first selection for his “A Year in Books” on-line book club. These are our selections for the February 6 First Friday book Synopsis. We meet every month at the Park City Club in University Park, near the Northwest Highway Dallas North Tollway exit. Since […].

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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. We anticipate that in the 2015 ranking there will be more Chinese representatives but that these will also be drawn from academia. Christensen’s influence on the business world has been profound.

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Best Leadership Books To Read In 2015

Eric Jacobson

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Dorie Clark on How to Stand Out: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Dorie Clark is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) and Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It (Portfolio/Penguin, 2015). magazine Isaac Asimov Michael Allen Microsoft Morgan Stanley MSNBC National Park Service.

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Teaching Leaders What to Stop

Marshall Goldsmith

As a 10-year board member of the Peter Drucker Foundation, I had many opportunities to listen to Peter Drucker, the world’s authority on management. Marshall’s exciting new research on engagement will be published in his upcoming book Triggers (Crown, 2015). We do not spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop.

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Autonomy is a key one that impacts leaders’ positions and roles which has been found to be a critical component for increasing employee engagement and thence productivity, as noted already by Peter Drucker decades ago, especially in relation to knowledge workers.

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