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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2023

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Most important, this book is not just another compilation of case studies. Culture Rules makes the case for why leaders should invest their time and energy on building culture and gives them three simple, actionable rules they must play by if they want to stay in the game and win! Almost everything we do involves words.

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

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All organizations, lawful and unlawful, face the same corporate governance problem: how to attract, retain, and motivate a self-interested workforce to achieve the organization’s mission and strategy. Relentless teaches these time-honored principles using crime syndicates as case studies. One Size Doesn’t Fit All.

P&L 330
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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2021

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This fascinating guide to workplace productivity and effectiveness draws upon extensive research and case studies to demonstrate how you can get better results in far less time while also increasing confidence and commitment. In The Power of Clarity , Ann Latham exposes the unrecognized confusion and explains how to eliminate it.

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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2022

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Other case studies include Adobe, Citigroup, Eli Lilly, Hitachi, Honeywell, Inditex, Komatsu, STC Pay, and Titan. Smart Leadership : Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact by Mark Miller. Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson. Growth is the goal.

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Is a Lack of Intentionality Holding You Back?

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It’s more than motivation or engagement which are “task-focused and lack the sustaining power of inspiration.”. Sanborn offers five levers to create, change, and/or maintain culture—intentionally. The Inspiration Imperative. Inspiration comes from purpose and the mission. Inspiring leadership begin with you.

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5 Leadership Lessons: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy is obviously the result of decades of practice developing strategy and the many case studies and classroom interactions made it personal and very readable. There’s a lot going on here: This leader is visionary, ambitious, goal-oriented, and motivational. We’ve all been there.

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Teaching By Heart: A Guide For Great Leadership

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Using himself as a case study, DeLong generously shares what goes on in his head and heart as a teacher. We need to have “road miles” so that we, through the process of elimination, understand the intersection between our values, motivations, and needs. I completely agree, and it is easy to see the parallels.