Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Competing in the Age of AI : Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential. Leadership Is Language : The Hidden Power of What You Say — and What You Don’t by L. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2021. Whether you are an individual trying to build a more sane and humane flow of daily work, a team that wants new levels of efficiency and effectiveness, or an entire organization changing your culture toward thoughtfulness, this book will lead you there.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2021. In this book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles. Ask those you trust what books have inspired them, and dig in.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 17, 2024

Here's a comprehensive guide to getting noticed—and promoted—at work, complete with action steps and book recommendations to propel your career forward. This proactive approach shows leadership potential and a vested interest in the company's success. Share what you learn with your team to demonstrate thought leadership.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Benefits of Empathetic Leadership. When you start to explore the benefits of empathetic leadership on a deeper level, it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. But it’s clear that empathy is a core leadership skill. Still, a sea change like this is hard-won.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Here’s another must-read book to add to your list as you transition from manager to leader. As the creator of the iconic “Corner Office” column in the New York Times , Bryant has spoken with more than a thousand leaders over the years about the challenges and nuances of leadership. It’s The Leap to Leader , by Adam Bryant.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

They explain the different forms of comedy, including improv, stand-up, and sketch comedy, and how each can be applied to leadership and business. They also discuss the potential pitfalls of using humor in the workplace and offer advice on how to avoid them.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Soon, I will share my pick for the Best Leadership Book of this year (2022). In the meantime, here's a reminder of what I selected as the Best Leadership Book of 2021. Flashback : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2022

Today, we flashback to 2021 : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. For 2021, my pick is, Heart First , Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything , by David Grossman , published in July 2021. And, if you read only one leadership book next year, make it this one.

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LDRLB

MAY 25, 2010

Through Groundswell , many leaders saw the need to make their organizations more open using social media. In Open Leadership , Li seeks to teach her readers how to demonstrate open leadership and transform their organizations in the process. Hold openness accountable. Leadership book review'

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 10, 2020

Kip Tindell, former chairman and CEO of The Container Store , was at the helm of the company since the first store opened in Dallas, TX in 1978 until late 2019. In 2014, he, along with Paul Keegan and Casey Shilling, wrote the book, Un-contain-able. Communication IS leadership. Good leadership advice all around.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 9, 2023

The story of how she discovered this touchstone and uses it throughout her life and work, and her advice on how others can, too, is told in her new book Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World. “I Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A Reel Leadership Article The world of comic book movies changed on July 14th, 2000. Based on the Marvel comic book series, X-Men, X-Men brought to life the stories children had been reading for years. Indeed, X-Men wasn’t the first comic book movie. They stayed pretty true to the original comic book characters.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 9, 2015

During this time, I’ll be dropping the leadership wisdom shared by the amazing speaker lineup. Maxwell is an internationally respected leadership expert, speaker, and author who has sold more than 18 million books. He recently released the book Intentional Living. The Best Advice John Maxwell Ever Received.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2020. That's what Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke shows in this rigorously researched and eye-opening book. With nowhere else to turn, Shay receives some hard-to-swallow advice from the most unlikely and unwanted source?Liam

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You can hear the tension in the voice of many managers and leaders who call to ask for advice. Do you have any advice?” When you start a conversation with your honest intent, it opens a door. Powerful Phrases in our new book. He was very open, friendly, and was listening to some of her favorite R&B songs.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

At a critical junction in the American Revolution, George Washington used superior leadership to turn the tables on a stronger competitor – and so can you. But in my experience, effective leadership can level the playing field. Effective leadership turns the tables. And I think George Washington would agree.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2017

Guest post from Michael Bungay Stanier: Recently, I stepped into an elevator on the way to a meeting and noticed that the button you press to close the door quickly was much more worn than the one you press to keep the door open. As a manager, it’s tempting to see your role as being to give advice and encourage action.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 24, 2022

About this time a year ago, I announced my pick for the Best Leadership Book of 2021. Let's look back to that well-deserving book. Flashback to the 2021 post : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. And, if you read only one leadership book next year, make it this one.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 26, 2017

Our journey of collaboration with Michael has been a remarkable example of the magic that can happen when you stay open to the possibilities and collaborate across generations and cultures. We first met Michael online when we had both launched our new books— and were excited to share insights and support on another. Understand them.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Be persistent yet adaptable: open-minded, flexible, and resilient. My advice is not to simply store a list in your memory and pull certain items out when needed. His new book is Can't Tame a Mongoose: Memoir of a Genomics Entrepreneur. Assemble diverse teams with complementary skills and a shared vision.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

In honor of President's Day, here's a two-part guest post from Hay Group's Signe Spencer (look for part two tomorrow): I recently read David Hackett Fischer’s Washington’s Crossing , the acclaimed book about the critical early months of the American revolution, including Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River and surprise attack on Trenton.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Welcome to the November Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, motivation, productivity, and more. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds shared Leadership Mumbo Jumbo: Are You Communicating Clearly to Your Followers?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

There are several areas of your leadership and work where you can invest to give yourself the best chance at that bigger responsibility: your knowledge and wisdom, the results you achieve now, relationships you build, and opportunities to speak up. Once again, you’re honing the same leadership skills you’ll at higher levels.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 10, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe The Differences Between Feedback and Advice, and Why It Matters by Kevin Eikenberry on January 10, 2011 in Devloping Others , Leadership , Learning Feedback and advice. I shall act on your advice.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2019

Guest post from Jeffrey Hayzlett: What’s leadership? There is no one set of rules that makes for an effective leader, but leadership encompasses a slew of characteristics and different people embody different sets of traits. My style of leadership is fearless, bold and relentless. What makes for an effective leader? Risk-taker.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The following post is a preview excerpt from the Introduction of the New Leadership Literacies by Bob Johansen. This book is about what’s next in what I believe will be an increasingly VUCA World, on a meandering path toward—but never quite reaching—distributed everything. In Future Tense.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. For 2021, my pick is, Heart First , Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything , by David Grossman , published in July 2021. And, if you read only one leadership book next year, make it this one.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You can search websites, read books and blogs, listen to podcasts, and examine research to become knowledgeable about almost every subject. As Richard Dawkins, the British author, said, “By all means let’s be open-minded , but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” We live in an age of abundant information. Of course not.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Welcome to the December 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For our December edition, we took a page out of last December’s Carnival of HR post and asked about books you have read which have made a difference in your leadership journey. But the books on this list were worth the effort. Let’s Get Started.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 26, 2014

I devoured any X-Men comic book I could get my hands on, even the off-shoots and mini-runs of comics. So, when they announced one of the coolest comic book storylines was being released at the theater, I was ecstatic. And I knew I had to see it opening weekend. You’ll need it in your leadership. Let others help you.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Decipher the Leadership Code. Many people are overwhelmed when they are studying leadership. Articles, books, seminars, videos, online courses…all of them provide pieces to the puzzle to assist individuals to becoming a great leader. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

He dropped out of business school and threw away the rule book. Through trial and error and a whole lot of perseverance, he opened the first Texas Roadhouse in 1993. To develop your mission and values, moderate open and honest discussions with groups around your company. But then founder Kent Taylor is not a conventional guy.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 13, 2013

Leadership: It’s amazing how complicated leadership “experts” have made the topic. I am a senior ranking officer in what can only be called the Legion of Leadership Complexifiers (the LLC). We members of the LLC make our livelihood plumbing, parsing, and peddling leadership concepts. Leaders open doors.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In my book Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges , I illuminate obstacles that hold most of us back at some point in our lives and present methods of overcoming them. Some folks who want to share advice or questions for us to ponder don’t have our best interests at heart.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 27, 2021

Leave it to leadership and communications expert, David Grossman , to decide to write a book called, Heart First, Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything. David is so in tune with providing timely, critical, actionable advice, how-to’s and tips for leaders.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Founded by George Gallup as the American Institute of Public Opinion in 1935, the organization delivers analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems. Fortunately, Culture Shock , offers invaluable advice for business leaders, including: The evidence in favor of and against the four-day workweek.

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