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First Leadership Book To Give To A New Manager

Eric Jacobson

Years ago when I started my leadership and management blog, I posted the question “ What’s The First Leadership Book You Would Give To a New Manager ?” o Giving a book about management first. Covey Leadership and Self-Deception – Arbinger Institute The One Minute Manager – Kenneth H. Maxwell · Kenneth H.

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Moving from Expert to Executive: Changes Great Leaders Learn to Make

Lead Change Blog

As Jim Collins describes in How the Mighty Fall , hubris was at the core. The Chairman and President left town while managers communicated the bad news. It was a major trust-buster, and the survivors lost motivation for the work. Upon their return, at the first gathering of the survivors, there was no processing of the layoffs.

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

How to Stop Procrastinating and Manage Your Scarcest Resource by @JesseLynStoner. Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. Motivational speakers are WRONG about changing habits!

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Leaders don’t create more followers. They create more leaders.

Brigette Hyacinth

Instead of pulling others up, many managers choose to push people down. The corporate world is littered with managers but lack leaders. Over the course of may career, I only had one manager who was a leader. It is a rare individual who excels in both managing and leading. Your most valuable asset is your people.

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Taking leadership to the next level

Lead on Purpose

In recent days I’m re-listening to Good to Great by Jim Collins. Collins’ definition is simple: “Level 5 leaders blend the paradoxical combination of deep personal humility with intense professional will.” This is, as Collins puts it, a “study in duality.” So can you and I become a Level 5 leader?

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Eric Jacobson | The Top 20 Leadership Books: What To Give First To A New Manager

Chart Your Course

The Top 20 Leadership Books: What To Give First To A New Manager. They are ideal for leaders and managers of all types of small to large businesses and organizations. Eighteen months ago, I posted the question “What’s The First Leadership Book You Would Give To a New Manager?” o Giving a book about management first.

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The Top 20 Leadership Books For A New Manager

Eric Jacobson

A couple years ago, I posted the question “ What’s The First Leadership Book You Would Give To A New Manager ?” Covey Leadership and Self-Deception – Arbinger Institute The First 90 Days – Michael Watkins The One Minute Manager – Kenneth H. Best Leadership Books Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Books'

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