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The Best Leadership Books of 2022

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Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. In this book, he describes them, celebrates them, and details their superpowers so you can find them, hire them, grow them, and retain them.

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3 Common Ways Your Construction Business Can Lose Money

Strategy Driven

Starting a construction business is one of the oldest business ideas in the book. When done correctly, it can lead to lots of profits, helping you lay the foundations of a construction empire. Construction businesses rely on suppliers to gain access to all the different raw materials and equipment needed to run the company.

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How Do I Figure Out My Blind Spot and Hidden Motivations? #AskingForaFriend

Let's Grow Leaders

In today’s #AskingForaFriend, I bring you an interview with Mike Maddock , serial entrepreneur, and best-selling author of several books including Plan D. Construct a Balanced Team Ensure you have a mix of at least four different types to cover various approaches to leadership and problem-solving.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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The Ecosystem Economy

Leading Blog

Sectors like construction, real estate, automotive manufacturing, financial services, and health care have been thought of as distinct categories, each operating in its own spheres. The book provides examples of how to begin to work through this. The borders between sectors are dissolving. Or a little of both?

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

We’ve constructed an “anatomy of leader character” based on a set of 11 dimensions and associated behaviors. The conditions that we thought of as a strength are actually operating like a vice. Cultivate awareness: The paradigm shift starts with a clear understanding of what character is and how it operates.

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Leadership Discipline Connection with Dre Baldwin

Let's Grow Leaders

We have to look at what we pre-program ourselves to do with the people around us and the way that our environment is constructed. That’s the structure that we operate within and our discipline is a byproduct of that. Because we help people ask questions that they haven’t even been thinking about asking.