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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 Should Leaders Address Challenge Of Low Performers?

Tanveer Naseer

Eagle Hill reports that replacing a mid-level employee – including hiring and training costs, in addition to lost revenue and lost productivity – can add up to 150% of that employee’s salary. Charan believes that a poor match with the job is one of the primary causes of low performance. “We So, what does that look like?

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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. All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. 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. Managing organizations involves optimizing a number of different functions in order to create a product or service and archive measurable organizational outcomes. There’s a progression of passages, or at least there should be.

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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? — The Product Management Perspective: Trust is vital for product managers.

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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

Despite the fact that there is always a huge amount of learning and benefit that comes out of seeing whether that idea could have become a viable business or a new product or service within an organisation. Which is why, for many people, it’s more comfortable for them to say, “I could have gone ahead with this idea, but….”

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

Great Leadership By Dan

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.