Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2012

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April. Extreme Trust : Honesty as a Competitive Advantage by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers. The End of Leadership by Barbara Kellerman. All In : How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JUNE 1, 2020

Three proven ways to win hearts at work with the 3Ps of Balanced Accountability in the workplace: Personal, Positive, and Performance. Today’s post is by Jeff Bennett. When my sons were about 6 and 8 years old, in an effort to create an alternative to video games, I taught them to play poker.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 15, 2011

Here is an excerpt of an interview of Roger Angell by Dave Weich for the Powell’s Books website. To read the complete interview and interviews of other prominent authors, please click here. * * * In the spring of 1962, William Shawn sent Roger Angell to Florida to write about spring training. Forty-one years (and [.].

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Guest post by Roger L. As a matter of fact, my first book came to me at 3 a.m. In the middle of the night, I woke up with the characters and the plot line for the book. I grabbed my pocket tape recorder and dictated almost the entire book. I grabbed my pocket tape recorder and dictated almost the entire book.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2011

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January. Change the Culture, Change the Game : The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results by Roger Connors and Tom Smith. Being the Boss : The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader by Linda A.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Chuck showed me the first “Beat Yesterday” book I ever saw. Every evening, he wrote how he did in his Beat Yesterday book. I didn’t know it then, but many salespeople use Beat Yesterday books. Sam Walton used a Beat Yesterday book when he opened the first Wal-Mart in Rogers, Arkansas back in July 1962.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

I found it in one of my favourite management books, entitled Managing Change and Making It Stick. I believe the book, written by Roger Plant, is now out of print, but you may pick up an old copy via the hyperlink. Roger introduced me to the concept of the organisational iceberg.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I love consuming the content of books. Men and women have poured their blood, sweat, and tears into crafting a book worth reading. Or new worlds are available to us when we crack open a book. Once I asked the question, the book recommendations poured in. In total, 33 books were recommended at the time I wrote this.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2013

Wise advice for leaders from author Roger Schwarz in his new book, Smart Leaders Smarter Teams : "You can express your own views as passionately as you want, as long as you''re equally curious about others'' views.". Roger Schwarz Management Leadership Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Quotes'

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 3, 2022

Forbes recently named, A New Way To Think , as one of the 10 must-read books for 2022. In the book, authored by Roger L. Question: In your book, you write that if you feel comfortable with your strategic plan, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very good. Our choices need to be designed to compel customer action.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 7, 2023

Forbes named, A New Way To Think , as one of the 10 must-read books for 2022. In the book, authored by Roger L. Question: In your book, you write that if you feel comfortable with your strategic plan, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very good. Our choices need to be designed to compel customer action.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions Phil Rosenzweig PublicAffairs (2014) Why understanding the decision making process as well as the roles of action and analysis “can improve the odds of success” As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of passages in two others in which their authors address […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 15, 2015

Today, I saw that he published his list of the top 50 sports books, in an article entitled “By My Reading…” (March 15, 2015, p. I enjoy listening to Tim Cowlishaw in Dallas every afternoon on 103.FM. He is a prominent columnist and reporter for SportsDay in the Dallas Morning News. 14C) Click the link […].

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Change Management Changing Behavior Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Leadership Books Making Decisions' Change is inevitable. Change is good. Help your employees and team learn to embrace change. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 7, 2014

O ne of my favorite comic book characters, next to Wolverine , has to be Captain America. Steve Rogers started off as a scrawny boy who couldn’t cut it in the army, even though he wanted to serve his country. My wife and I decided to make this movie a mini-date night as we both enjoy comic book movies. This is fear.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Contemporary Books (2000) “I have spent my adult life trying to see the world again as I once did as a child.” Pablo Picasso Alan Gregerman’s core thesis is that there are 13 “gifts from childhood” that can help those who embrace them […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 29, 2013

Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders Peter Fuda New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013) How and why leadership transformation can only be understood by thinking holistically There are at least two ways to view the title of this book and Peter Fuda may have had both in mind while writing it: the transformation (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 15, 2013

Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results Roger Schwarz Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” ” Kenyan Proverb The last time I checked, Amazon offers 52,820 books for sale in the category “business teams.”

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The Big Lies of Strategy by Roger L. Life is too short for crappy books from @wallybock. Here are a selection of tweets from October 2018 that you don't want to miss: 5 Mistakes That Cause A Slow Leak In Your Influence by @DanReiland. The Myth of ‘Dumbing Down’ via @TheAtlantic. What Does High Ambition Really Do to Relationships?

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. For those of you that have read Out of the Crisis, Deming asks in that book: Need any country be poor?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Roger Fulton ’s book, Common Sense Management , offers this quick and easy-to-remember explanation of the three categories of management responsibilities : Supervision : Overseeing the work of other people. That means making sure that they do their work and meet the goals and deadlines as expected.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 11, 2017

The following is a guest piece by Dr. Derek Roger and Nick Petrie. Our book, “ Work Without Stress: Building a Resilient Mindset for Lasting Success ”, describes the Challenge of Change Resilience Training™ program that Derek Roger developed from research on stress and resilience that he began over 30 years ago. Your choice.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 3, 2011

The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking Roger Martin Harvard Business School Press (2007) When I first read this brilliant book, I was reminded of what Doris Kearns reveals about Abraham Lincoln in Team of Rivals.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 3, 2011

The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Edge Roger Martin Harvard Business Press (2009) I just re-read this book and value it even more now than I did when it was first published. One point I want to make here that I failed to make in a prior review is that [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 8, 2011

The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability Roger Connors, Tom Smith, and Caig Hickman Portfolio/Penguin Group (2004) Note: I recently re-read this book while formulating questions fir an interview of its co-authors and found it even more relevant now than I did when first reading it.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The title of this book is somewhat misleading because it could be interpreted to suggest that […]. Bob''s blog entries "A Stricter Code for People of Color" "Nail the Tactics" "Road Map for Protégés" "The Sponsor Imperative" "What Is Executive Presence?"

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Bob''s blog entries 3M Andrew King Citizens of Dublin Columbia Business School Publishing Design Management Institute (DMI) University of Virginia''s Daren School of Business IBM FiDJI Here''s a blueprint for deploying design thinking to embed a more creative approach to problem solving Intuit Jeanne Liedtka Karen Christensen Kevin Bennett MeYou Health (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 31, 2011

Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge & Warrior to Be More Creative Roger von Oech Harper Paperbacks (1988) This book should be read in combination with A Whack on the Side of the Head…preferably after you have read that book. A Kick in the Seat of the Pants:?Using At least that’s my suggestion.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 22, 2011

Chan John Wiley & Sons (2010) A chorus of eloquent voices that suggest “a sense of what life is, can be, or should be” Prior to reading this book, I had already read two biographies of Warren Buffett, Roger Lowenstein’s Buffett: [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Roger von Oech Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2002) The fact that von Oech draws heavily upon the “ancient wisdom of Heraclitus&# in this book correctly suggests what a creative mind such as von Oech’s can accomplish when seeing direct [.].

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Those things that make life special — spend time with friends and family, read a good book, watch a fun video, catch that movie you’ve been wanting to see. To help you relax, I’ve linked to some of my favorite books, videos, and music I’ve experienced this year. The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Artificial intelligence researcher Roger Schank says that we think people are wise when they’re able to do that. You’ll find stories in books and magazines. Lincoln was tall, but otherwise not very impressive physically. His enemies criticized him for many things. It’s a skill you can learn. The Stories You Tell.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 22, 2011

In an earlier chapter of my life, I read church books, theology books, books about church life and church growth and God. Now I read business books, and quite a bit of general non-fiction. I am not well read. I wish I were. I liked those – then. But I have never tackled much fiction. [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Our first two books were animated by a relatively simple set of ideas: Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. If there is one mantra a Freak lives by, it is this: people respond to incentives People do “bad things” when there is an incentive to do so (e.g., “The The Cobra Effect” — The “Cobra” […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 29, 2011

Roger von Oech Business Plus, 25th Anniversary Edition (2008) Note: When preparing for some interviews, I re-read several books on the creative process and remain convinced that all are still among the best. A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative? This one is indeed a business classic. This [.].

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

One of my favorite change quotes comes from a book by Michael Fullan, a Canadian expert on educational change, who wrote in Leading in a Culture of Change [2001]: “Change is a double-edged sword. It first appeared in his book, “Managing Change … and making it stick!”. Its relentless pace these days runs us off our feet.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Better still, create the time to explore Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline , and learn and practice tools such as the Ladder of Inference. Peter Senge also described in his book how to buildi a learning organisation. It sets out four steps for having an honest conversation.

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