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5 Leadership Lessons: Finding the Right Leader

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The failure rate of executive transitions—up to 40 percent of all leaders fail in their new roles and are replaced or retired in their first eighteen months on the job—is one of the costliest problems any organization can face. In The Right Leader , executive career advisor Nat Stoddard and Claire Wyckoff present a process to improve the search for top-level executives.

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Bury My Heart at Conference Room B

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In Bury My Heart at Conference Room B , Stan Slap cuts through a lot of the dancing around that occurs in many leadership discussions. It should go without saying that emotional commitment improves organizational performance. If in doubt, Slap spells it out in the first third of the book. The way to get that emotional commitment, says Slap, is for you to live your own deepest values in your work environment.