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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Beyond Collaboration Overload : How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being by Rob Cross (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021) The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. When we get it right on the inside, we can do right on the outside. Blog Post ).

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2012 Best Books on Leadership, Innovation and Strategy

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It’s the season for lists and as 2012 begins to wind down, we thought we’d review what we’ve read this year and put together a list of our own. In fact, 2012 celebrated the 25 th Anniversary of the books release and this fifth edition comes with over 100 new case studies that further demonstrate Kouzes and Posner magnum opus.

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How to Manage a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

It's when it becomes an obsession that it's a problem," says Robert Steven Kaplan, a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and author of What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential. No one loves to do things just adequately," says Kaplan.

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