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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. Blog Post ). How did you react? What helped? What didn’t?

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Judgment Calls

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Since the 1990’s when Peter Senge popularized the notion of “learning organizations,” there has been a lot of discussion about attributes of great companies. Books like Built to Last (Collins and Porras, 1997) and Good to Great (Collins, 2001) have laid a foundation. These are real stories and there is much to learn from them.

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12 Books that Shaped My Leadership

Nathan Magnuson

Good to Great by Jim Collins. If you’re looking for a case study on what great organizations (and great leaders) do that sets them apart from the rest, this is your book. In fact, it’s not just one case study, it’s two or three dozen between feature and comparison companies.

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Book Review: Ruthless Focus

LDRLB

Wally co-authored the book with Thomas Hall, who had been researching companies that experienced lasting growth. Hall and Bock argue that lasting companies ruthlessly focus on their core strategy. When reading Ruthless Focus , the parallels to two authors develop immediately: Collins and Porter.

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20 Best Leadership Movies; Break Out the Popcorn

Great Leadership By Dan

Movies, like a case study, offer real-life portrayals of examples of leadership in crisis. For instance, Turregano has used the 1957 drama 12 Angry Men to illustrate Jim Collins' ideas in the best-selling book Good to Great, and the classic It's a Wonderful Life to model Robert Greenleaf's ideas of servant leadership.

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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to Dick Clark

Strategy Driven

First-ever article on Dick Clark, as a business case study. Motivating pop culture piece designed to foster better, more successful companies. Thanks to great mentors, I learned to be my own best self, a visionary thinker and a repository of great case studies. Learn from case studies elsewhere in the marketplace.

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Embrace Wild Thinking to Grow Your Business

Skip Prichard

Study some of the most interesting and diverse group of companies such as Google, Twinings, Dropbox and even Wimbledon and you end up with fascinating stories, case studies, and research useful to every brand. Ideas to Grow Your Brand. The Clearing is a brand consultancy helping global brands grow and make a difference.

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