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10 Books You Should Read This Summer

Leading Blog

Listed below are ten books released this year that will entertain, make you think, and improve your leadership. Their goal in writing the book is “to start conversations, not end them, and to provide guidance and frameworks to help refine your thinking and strategies on the aspects of leadership that matter most.”.

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3 Things You Need to Control to Succeed as a Leader

Leading Blog

Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on behavioral economics, calls them System 1 and 2. Its cognitive processes take place mainly in the amygdala and other parts of the brain that developed early in our evolution. According to recent research, it developed as humans started to live within larger social groups.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

They cover recruiting, hiring, managing employees, motivating workers, developing talent, managing diversity, and much more. HR Rising: From Ownership to Leadership by Steve Browne. Instead, an engaged workforce results when the focus is on developing, motivating, and empowering employees. Let’s begin. Younger.

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Why Leaders Don’t Listen

Great Leadership By Dan

Although I have seen the words, “Embracing ambiguity,” on the list of leadership competencies for many companies worldwide, I have never met an executive who loves not knowing the answers. If you are a leader looking to empower and develop others, spend more time asking questions than giving advice.

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Book Recommendations: Some Must-Reads for HR Professionals

HR Digest

They cover recruiting, hiring, managing employees, motivating workers, developing talent, managing diversity, and much more. HR Rising: From Ownership to Leadership by Steve Browne. Instead, an engaged workforce results when the focus is on developing, motivating, and empowering employees. Let’s begin. Younger.

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How to Make Better Decisions

Leading Blog

A remarkable aspect of your mental life," says Daniel Kahneman, "is that you are rarely stumped." Forty-four percent of lawyers would not recommend a career in law to young people. We develop a quick belief about a situation and then seek out information that confirms our belief. ask Chip and Dan Heath in Decisive. "A

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Keep Experts on Tap, Not on Top

Harvard Business Review

The psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrated quite convincingly that we human beings are not the model-optimizing "rational" actors that many economists historically believed we are. They were truly knowledgeable within their domain, but it was often developments outside of their domain that derailed their predictions.