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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. In this lively, accessible guide, Ram Charan, bestselling author and adviser to some of the world’s top CEOs and boards, redefines competitive advantage for the digital-first era, offering a set of new rules to get ahead. It's the sneakiest form of fear.

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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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New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reach That Goal

Eric Jacobson

Monday, January 17, 2011 New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reach That Goal Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson, wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs. That will increase their motivation.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Don't Let E-mail Zap Productivity

Eric Jacobson

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Dont Let E-mail Zap Productivity The typical at-desk employee in the workplace loses 2.1 hours of productivity every day to interruptions and distractions, reports Basex, an IT research and consulting firm. Productivity drops. The typical employee also checks e-mail 50 times a day.