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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2017

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May. One Minute Mentoring : How to Find and Work With a Mentor--And Why You'll Benefit from Being One by Ken Blanchard and Claire Diaz-Ortiz. The Power of Little Ideas : A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation by David Robertson with Kent Lineback.

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Are You a Culture Change Skeptic?

Great Leadership By Dan

If they don’t create a work culture that supports efficiency, innovation, high performance, and employee engagement, they won’t satisfy that triumvirate. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. How do you know the Positive Impact was due to culture change?

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Collaboration Begins With You

Lead Change Blog

It’s a mindset that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation—all of which lead to a healthy bottom line. Collaboration is an integral part of an organization’s culture.

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4 Strategies to Remove Fear from Your Leadership

Leading with Trust

Ken Blanchard and I address this topic in our book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. His treatment of mistakes as learning opportunities transformed what was once a fearful, risk-averse culture into one of innovation, trust, and safety.

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Highlighting Our August Sponsor: Launchbox365

Lead Change Blog

Launchbox365 helps companies and individuals achieve bold success through applying their expertise in cross-generational issues to help organizations bridge the gap between managers and their Gen Y workforce to increase employee engagement, productivity, innovation and profits. Here are highlights of their offerings: Chasing Relevance.

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Let’s Not Kid Ourselves – The Debate Over Hybrid Work Comes Down to Trust

Leading with Trust

Well, most companies are saying that employees’ physical presence in the office is required to foster a healthy organizational culture, or that in-person interaction is required for innovative and creative work to take place. Are those important factors? Absolutely. Is being in the office a prerequisite for those things to flourish?

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Simple Truths of Leadership Turn Common Sense into Common Practice

Leading with Trust

To prove my point, go to Amazon.com and search their book listings for the word “leadership” and see how many returns you get (but wait until you finish reading this article!). Ken Blanchard and I hold that belief and we’ve seen it proven throughout our careers. Creativity, innovation, productivity, efficiency, and morale flourish.