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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

How do we create the future while managing the present? The book offers a concrete framework to help individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can be. Blog Post ). Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Blog Post ).

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. Most people have learned not to listen to what management says but to pay attention only to what is going on around them on a day-to-day basis. Source: Wayne E.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative.

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Getting People to Believe in Something They Can’t Yet Imagine

Harvard Business Review

Cancel further funding for the project in favor of developing an updated version of an existing company product? To turn that idea into a reality you have to influence people and gain their support. PILOT PROJECT: Another of the major methods of persuasion outlined by Robert Cialdini is the “principle of consistency.”

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New Managers Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Express Their Emotions

Harvard Business Review

We never want to lose our composure, so we develop strategies for keeping a professional face on. Becoming a Manager. 5 Things New Managers Should Focus on First. New Managers Need a Philosophy About How They’ll Lead. New Managers Don’t Have to Have All the Answers. You and Your Team Series.

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Getting Ahead by Leading Across

Harvard Business Review

Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. The daughter of a senior corporate executive, she had all the right tickets including an MBA from a top school and several years of experience with a prestigious management consulting firm. (Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.).

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Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

Jill should have spent much more time managing up. She should have better managed decision makers, her boss, her image, and her own career. Managing a career in these ways is critical, but surprisingly few people do it. So why wasn’t Jill spending more time managing up, especially if it was in her own self-interest?