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The Best Leadership Books of 2018

Leading Blog

The Mind of the Leader : How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) The Mind of the Leader offers a radical, yet practical, solution to solve the leadership crisis. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). We fear rejection.

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Executive Coaches : Unleashing Potential

CO2

This blog post delves into the transformative journey of leadership development through the lens of executive coaching. The Evolution and Impact of Executive Coaching Executive coaches have been instrumental in the evolution of coaching as a dynamic and innovative practice in leadership development.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). This paper is about rethinking the practice of leadership and reforming the way we approach the development of leaders and leadership in our organizations. Where are we?

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How Pragmatic Leaders Can Transform Stuck Organizations

Great Leadership By Dan

Pragmatic leaders anticipate the reactions that others may have, and try to develop arguments and justifications for their idea. Pragmatic leaders have a vested interest in the development of their ideas, and are determined to see them to fruition. Pragmatic leaders understand that they cannot drop the ball.

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Feedback To Female Entrepreneurs Often Has Gender Bias Baked In

The Horizons Tracker

This problem is, they suggest, particularly problematic for female entrepreneurs who might be more inclined to develop products that address needs that are specific to female consumers. The researchers tested the impact of this sampling bias on around 6,000 products that had been released on Product Hunt between 2016 and 2018.

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Are Twitter Bots Proving Harder To Spot?

The Horizons Tracker

New research from the University of Southern California highlights the advances being made by bot developers, with the latest generation increasingly lifelike, and therefore harder to spot. They found that during the 2016 election, bots typically focused on retweeting, with a high number of tweets on the same or similar messages.

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A Happy Society Is An Entrepreneurial Society

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers discovered that when South Korean president Park Guen-hye was impeached in 2016, it improved people’s trust in the government, which in turn increased people’s intention to start a new business within the next five years. Achieving happiness.