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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

​ Making the Grass Greener on Your Side Ken Melrose, the head of the Toro lawn care company, shares his journey of corporate loss, gains, and knowledge learned along the way. shares the secrets to how executives and managers can become the leaders their company needs. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Daniel H.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

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Good Leaders Acknowledge What Can't Be Done

Harvard Business Review

In it, MBAs were asked to choose the best R&D investment strategy for a case company; then, they were shown how that strategy played out (disappointingly). They worried that it made Kent and the company look unequal to its challenges. A pathbreaking study by Barry Staw in the 1970s helped to clarify why.

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Idea Entrepreneur: The New 21st Century Career

Harvard Business Review

They''re people like Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook COO and author of Lean In ), who is advocating a big new idea from within an organization. Jim Collins has created a long-lasting enterprise supported by the sale of books and media, as well as fees for consulting, speaking engagements, and workshops.