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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Learn or Die : Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization by Edward D. Hess Learn or Die is a book everyone who is serious about learning and growth—personally or organizationally—should read. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. Best Leadership Books of 2012.

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Transforming a Management System – A Case Study From the Madison Wisconsin Police Department

Curious Cat

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. A Case Study Madison, Wisconsin (1981-1993). Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership. Step 4: Start practicing Quality Leadership.

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Judgment Calls

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

I do not believe that studying these leaders will reveal the secret formula to great leadership. The traditional paradigm where the great leader imparts his wisdom and leads his organization to great heights does not work in today’s world. These are real stories and there is much to learn from them.

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Learn or Die

Leading Blog

“In order to maximize our learning we have to be sensitive to and manage our emotions.” The litmus test of a learning organization is being receptive to information that goes against the established way and a tolerance for failure and mistakes.” Being smart is really about knowing how to learn.

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How To Achieve Constant Learning By Breaking Free From Chronic Performance

Eric Jacobson

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. All too often, it just leaves us exhausted.

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The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 1

Strategy Driven

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. Win the hearts and minds of individuals, so they share and work toward your organization’s goals. Front Runners step-by-step program includes case studies, illustrations, graphs, glossary, and bibliography.

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The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 2

Strategy Driven

A pure fact of transformational leadership is that you can accomplish only a small portion of the requisite forward movement on your own. You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. The key is to establish true transformational leadership.

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