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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2021

Leading Blog

Rethinking Competitive Advantage : New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan. Giants like Amazon and Alibaba are creating vast new market spaces through a deft combination of tools like machine learning and business savvy that reimagines customer experiences while generating immense shareholder value. And it's an epidemic.

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How To Hire The Right People And Set Them Up For Success

Eric Jacobson

In the new book, Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier , you’ll discover how seven companies from around the world reinvented the talent management process to become better functioning companies and talent engines that drive impressive growth. Question: What are the most important things to look for in a candidate when selecting a CEO?

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First Look: Leadership Books for December 2019

Leading Blog

The Amazon Management System : The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders by Ram Charan and Julia Yang. The intent of this book—the author's goal for you—is to understand the baseless underpinnings of almost all our fears. What has propelled their record streak of growth?

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The 6 Passages of Leadership and Management

Great Leadership By Dan

Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. It includes having a clear set of values and principles that guide your day-to-day behavior and decisions, a compelling vision, and goals. There’s a progression of passages, or at least there should be.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization. For example, many effective leaders have the following strengths: •Coaching others.

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Do Not Split HR – At Least Not Ram Charan’s Way

Harvard Business Review

They don’t know how key decisions are made, and they have great difficulty analyzing why people—or whole parts of the organization—aren’t meeting the business’s performance goals.“. I believe that Charan’s perspective reflects an increasing emphasis among business leaders on the organizational capabilities required to win.

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The Three Decisions You Need to Own

Harvard Business Review

While the obvious decisions that CEOs need to get right involve strategy and competitive advantage, too many executives delegate away three critical decisions that they need to own: decisions about goals, resource allocation, and people. Goal setting : As a rule, CEOs don’t give enough attention to setting goals.

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