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Aim Higher: Leadership during a time of crisis

Skip Prichard

Lead through Crisis. You can read books and attend seminars. In a crisis, ask ‘What do my people need to hear?’ This holds doubly true during times of crisis. The nature of crisis management is that you can’t plan ahead for them. How to handle a crisis. Crisis leadership isn’t just for CEOs.

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This is What TRUSTworthy Leadership Looks Like in Turbulent Times

Lead Change Blog

It’s caused them to re-think what it means to be an effective leader, not just in times of crisis, but in everyday life. Crisis has a way of stripping away all the extraneous things in life we believe to be important but really aren’t. In his book Good to Great , Jim Collins popularized the concept of the “Stockdale Paradox.”

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Yet, 40 years later, few now speak of the book. When the book project started in 1978, the U.S. The country was suffering an existential crisis, as well, amidst an OPEC oil embargo coinciding with Vietnam War and Watergate fatigue.

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From Drucker To The Lean Startup: The (Literary) Evolution of Leadership Philosophy

Terry Starbucker

Here’s the list of books we talked about, in the order presented, for your reference (with links – and note neither Todd nor I are getting any affiliate commissions or fees): The Essential Drucker - by Peter Drucker. Out of the Crisis - by W.Edwards Deming. Good to Great – by Jim Collins. Badaracco Jr.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Stop Talking, Start Asking and Listening

Art Petty

In this crisis environment, there are only two behaviors that will save your organization: curiosity and listening. The post Leadership Caffeine™—Stop Talking, Start Asking and Listening appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Culture Leadership Charge – A Crisis of Respect by @scedmonds. 29 of the Most Gifted and Highly Recommended Books by Shane Parrish @farnamstreet. Jim Collins: On Leadership In America via @ChiefExecGrp. Neuroscientists have identified how exactly a deep breath changes your mind by Moran Cerf. What’s Your Learning Style?

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Anti-Planning Zeitgeist: Embrace It at Your Peril

LDRLB

This post is adapted from her recent book The Outstanding Organization: Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence.]. In his book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure , Harford declared that “plans are out.”

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