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Talent Wins

Coaching Tip

Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century. With this playbook, the authors aim to help executives deploy human capital as effectively as they deploy financial capital. Scale up individual talent. Related articles.

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Trust – the key to success

Lead on Purpose

This is the first book that teaches the ‘whats’ and the ‘hows’ of trust.&# – Ram Charan “After you turn off the projector, quit PowerPoint, and end your pitch, most deals come down to a simple question: Do you trust each other? Trust is the glue.

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Ten Essential Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO

Harvard Business Review

Selecting a new chief executive is critical because so much rides on a positive outcome. From directors, executives, and specialists whom we have witnessed, worked with, and interviewed, and from our own search and consulting experience, we draw ten principles for executives and directors to guide the executive-succession process.

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The Five Points Of Professionalism

Eric Jacobson

Your organizations work ethic should be solution- and positive-results-oriented. Source: "Execution--The Discipline Of Getting Things Done" Promote Shared Creativity With Your Employees As the book "The DNA Of Leadership" suggests, ask your employees: * How would you handle this?

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Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books?

Eric Jacobson

Leaders on the LinkedIn Executive Suite group came up with these nearly 50 words in answer to a discussion topic I posted in the group forum: " A Good Leader Is [insert one word]." A big thank you to that group for this valuable list. A big thank you to that group for this valuable list.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business Review

I led the global management appraisal practice of our own executive search firm, Egon Zehnder. against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. What we found was an incredible paradox.