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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2021

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Anxiety at Work shows how everyone at all levels can work together to build an environment that fosters camaraderie, productivity, and calm. from large conferences and video meetings to daily emails, texts, IMs, and conference calls?and Wellbeing at Work by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter. It is here now.

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Evolve or Dissolve: Shaping Your Corporate Culture for a Remote Reality

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Remote Work: A Double-Edged Sword While remote work offers flexibility and can increase productivity, it limits opportunities for spontaneous collaboration and social interaction — both crucial for building a cohesive culture. Importantly, if corporate culture is left unattended, over time it will weaken and dissolve.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

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My selection of these leadership attributes was affirmed during a conference of corporate directors when over dinner, a few of us had a discussion about the attributes of strong and effective leaders. Empathy is considered foundational to workplace cooperation and productive collaboration. I call these attributes “The Big Four.”.

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The Physics of Innovation

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Innovation faces the inertia of the status quo defined by team members, organization culture, and whatever product or service solutions already exist. Purpose is not about a slogan on the conference room wall. These all become anchors for evaluating the desirability of anything new.

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Make It, Don't Fake It

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Now a product of modern American culture that rolls all too easily off the tongue, its mere existence tells you it’s okay to lie, from twisting the truth just a little to flagrantly deceiving others for personal gain. In our drive to succeed, the temptation is always there to cut corners and misrepresent ourselves.

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The Journey to Servant Leadership

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He explains, “by following the principles of servant leadership, we were able as a committed and engaged team to create a growth mindset and far exceed our normal production with basically what we already had.”. They invest money into developing the team by sending people to conferences, bringing in outside speakers, and encouraging reading.

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5 Leadership Lessons: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

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The big conference room as the lights dim and the Power Point slides begin. Good Strategy, Bad Strategy is obviously the result of decades of practice developing strategy and the many case studies and classroom interactions made it personal and very readable. We’ve all been there.

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