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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2023

Leading Blog

The Four Workarounds shows how seemingly intractable problems―from public urination to the challenges of delivering lifesaving medicine to remote communities―were addressed using unconventional tactics. Some of the world’s biggest and most admired companies are already using Savaget’s research to transform the ways they do business.

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Personal Branding Is Key For Gen Z In The Job Market

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from the University of East Anglia has unveiled how Generation Z views online “personal brands” as a critical tool for gaining a competitive advantage in job markets. Consequently, personal branding has emerged as a critical component in achieving career success.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. A preferred provider has a significant competitive advantage over all other providers, because it is the “go-to” provider in the marketplace. ” -Stan Silverman.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. Proponents believe that dominant market share creates competitive advantage because ofmarketplace leverage and economies of scale. Be forewarned, this tactic destroys profits. But hold on for a moment.

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Leadership & Change

N2Growth Blog

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral. Has this been useful?

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

LDRLB

I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. Proponents believe that dominant market share creates competitive advantage because of marketplace leverage and economies of scale. Be forewarned, this tactic destroys profits. But hold on for a moment.

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Flashback: Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer. The second thing to remember is that nobody owes you anything – it’s up to you to get the training and prepare yourself for the career or job you want. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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