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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2015

Leading Blog

Return on Character : The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win by Fred Kiel. A Higher Standard : Leadership Strategies from America''s First Female Four-Star General by Ann Dunwoody with Tomago Collins. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 100 titles. Work Rules! For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273.

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12 Books You Should Add To Your Reading List

Joseph Lalonde

I’ve found all of that and more as I’ve expanded my reading library. EntreLeadership proves it as he shares his years of leadership experience building his company from the ground up. Good To Great by Jim Collins – The recent classic business book is a must read for anyone looking to grow their organization.

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12 Books that Shaped My Leadership

Nathan Magnuson

I always take them seriously because I wouldn’t be the leader I am without my library. Good to Great by Jim Collins. In fact, it’s not just one case study, it’s two or three dozen between feature and comparison companies. For years I’ve been asked for book recommendations.

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20 Best Leadership Movies; Break Out the Popcorn

Great Leadership By Dan

For instance, Turregano has used the 1957 drama 12 Angry Men to illustrate Jim Collins' ideas in the best-selling book Good to Great, and the classic It's a Wonderful Life to model Robert Greenleaf's ideas of servant leadership. YouTube provides us with a searchable library of leadership content on any topic. In Good Company 13.

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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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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). By Jim Collins. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” By Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.