Kevin Eikenberry

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Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both

Kevin Eikenberry

The post Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. The title and recency might be leaning you in favor of purchasing this book. The third fact might not. If you are worried that this book is stuffy or academic, fear […].

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Influence — a Master Key to Leadership Success

Kevin Eikenberry

To be effective at nearly any endeavor in life requires cooperation [.]. To be a successful leader requires that you can influence other successfully — after all, you can’t control other people’s behavior or choices, only influence them — which means that influence is a critical skill for a leader. More than just for leadership, though.

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Two Books to Better Organizational Results

Kevin Eikenberry

He takes five key roles of leaders and explores them in a chapter: Improve vision Ensure accountability Build unity and cooperation Create better decisions Motivate to action Then he opens each section with a list of great questions, and the chapter follows with comments, stories and ideas related to each question.

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