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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Many of the books listed below help us to do just that. Others were included because they help us to think differently, opening us up to potential we might not have considered. The books listed below help us to build the right foundation from which we can lead others. Leaders are dealers in hope. Blog Post ). How did you react?

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The 5 Disciplines of Wiki Management

Leading Blog

Rod Collins writes in Wiki Management , “Today’s managers may spend more time soliciting input from their workers, but at the end of the day, the basic social technology remains the same: The managers are still the bosses, the workers are still subordinates, and the latter are still expected to do as they are told.”

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Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything

Eric Jacobson

Leave it to leadership and communications expert, David Grossman , to decide to write a book called, Heart First, Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything. Heart First is engaging, inspirational and packed with powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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How to Identify Leadership Potential

Great Leadership By Dan

Here’s a summary of three studies on how to identify leadership potential: Development Dimensions International DDI has developed a set of criteria that they say will accurately predict executive success, based on their own experience and research, and research by others, including work by Jim Collins for his book Good to Great ; Morgan W.

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How Managers Can Make Casual Networking Events More Inclusive

Harvard Business Review

The other solution is one that can create lasting change for diversity and inclusion: to organize inclusive events that welcome employees from all backgrounds. Engage a diverse planning committee. Formal company events should have a diverse planning committee that understands how to serve a diverse group of people.

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The Best Leadership Book Of 2021

Eric Jacobson

Soon, I will share my pick for the Best Leadership Book of this year (2022). In the meantime, here's a reminder of what I selected as the Best Leadership Book of 2021. Flashback : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year.

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Flashback: Best New Leadership Book Of 2021

Eric Jacobson

Today, we flashback to 2021 : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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