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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2023

Leading Blog

With candor and depth, Rometty shares milestones from her life and career while redefining power as a way to drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few—a concept she calls "good power." They’re better at changing minds, engaging audiences, and driving action.

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6 Lessons On Creating a Lasting Influence

QAspire

How could a man with no formal authority take on an empire and influence the hearts and minds of so many people across the country? Gandhi’s impact is a testimony to the fact that you don’t need positional power to influence others. Every time I think of influence, I think of Gandhi. How does one generate influence?

Influence 181
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Quiet Is The New Superpower: Voices From The Introvert Revolution

Lead Change Blog

is the author of Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces, The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence, and The Genius of Opposites. You will gain keen insights into how to use your strengths as an introvert to become more successful within your career and learn how to navigate extroverted settings without compromising comfort or personality.

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Executive Presence Training

Career Advancement

By experiencing this executive presence program , leaders will acquire the necessary traits to develop their executive presence and become the elite performers who influence outcomes, contribute to major decisions, and drive change for the betterment of the company. Here’s the program and what the audience learned.

Training 179
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Nailing It: How Historys Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together

Leading Blog

Specifically, he looks at the influences like education, parents, friends, and events in the world that helped them make the choices they made. Young people that believe that their education may be useless and that their career opportunities have fallen apart before they have even started out.

Follow-up 376
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How Successful Leaders Use Both Retail and Wholesale Communications

Next Level Blog

Highly effective communications campaigns use a combination of narrowcasting with key influencers and broadcasting to the larger group. When I was getting started in my career as a speaker 15 years ago, I had a client organization where I spoke to 40 or 50 high potential leaders three or four times a year.

Retail 184
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Choosing Courage

Leading Blog

Courageous acts can be risky—career-wise, socially, and sometimes physically. Detert defines workplace courage as “taking action at work because it feels right and important to stand for a principle, a cause, or a group of others, despite the potential for serious career, social, psychological, and even physical repercussions for doing so.