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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2015

Leading Blog

Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March. Peter Drucker''s Five Most Important Questions : Enduring Wisdom for Today''s Leaders by Peter F. Drucker, Joan Snyder Kuhl and Frances Hesselbein. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 100 titles. Davis and Christopher J.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. Drucker was writing about knowledge workers in the late 1960s. business Guest Posts leadership Recent Posts China ideas innovation leadership thinking Management strategy'

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Best Leadership Books To Read In 2015

Eric Jacobson

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sophie Wade: Leadership is in the midst of a major makeover. 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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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. During this time, Peter taught me some very important lessons about life and leadership. How do you use “What to Stop” in coaching and leadership development?

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Self-awareness (plus action) Translates to the Bottom-line

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was recently published in SmartBlog on Leadership : According to a new study by the Korn-Ferry Institute, “knowing thyself” isn’t just a nice-to-to; self-awareness flows directly to a firm’s bottom-line I’ve been sharing this information with my network and it’s generating a lot of interest. It’s called the “knowing-doing gap”.

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Creating a Great Rest of Your Life

Marshall Goldsmith

Management guru Peter Drucker considered Hesselbein to be the greatest executive he had ever met. I also had the privilege of serving on the board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for 10 years and being able to observe Peter Drucker. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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