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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2022

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2022. Win from Within : Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage by James Heskett. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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A Trust Cause: Leadership Stimulates or Stifles Trust and Engagement

The Practical Leader

Trust is a broad symptom of deeper leadership/culture issues. Empowerment comes from a set of values and leadership behaviors that form the team/organization culture (what’s acceptable and rewarded and what’s unacceptable and not tolerated). I haven’t yet found that magic wand. ” Especially true for his company.

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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

presidents, and author of over four dozen books and one thousand papers summed it up well, “There are two classes of people who tell what is going to happen in the future: Those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.”. One of the classic books about the forecasting fallacy was written by Dan Gardner.

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Book Review of “The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance”

The Practical Leader

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. The book provided solid evidence of the payoffs that come from adaptive cultures and the negative power of unadaptive cultures. . leadership, recognition, job opportunity, personal development).

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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

And even though Kotter and Heskett showed that culture could account for a 20-30% better overall performance than similar competitors, many leaders and organizations don’t see how to develop a culture that enhances performance. No wonder that culture seems elusive, and not something you can get a grip on.

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‘Tis the Season of Prophecies, Forecasts, and Predictions

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses the right question in his blog Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions? ” In providing provocative perspectives on this challenge, Heskett draws from three books on the folly of predictions, how some predictions can be made more accurate, and how to gain from disorder.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

After reading his book Culture Spark , I reached out to talk about his work and his research. “If James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. Jason Richmond.

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