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How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success

Leading Blog

R EVERSE ENGINEERING is systematically taking things apart to discover how and why they work. Just as both “Jobs and Gates reaped enormous benefit from studying the works of their contemporaries, extracting crucial insights, and applying those lessons to develop new products, says Ron Friedman in Decoding Greatness , you can too.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Elon Musk by Walter Isaascson

Leading Blog

Even though Musk’s approach doesn’t necessarily provide a blueprint to be copied any more than Steve Jobs’ approach did (even though both individuals got results), it does offer lessons to be learned and applied in our own leadership. It made his engineers engage in first-principles thinking. Musk’s focus was on root causes.

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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2021. Being adaptable and flexible have always been hallmarks of effective leadership and a fulfilling life. Too Proud to Lead : How Hubris Can Destroy Effective Leadership and What to do About It by Ben Laker, David Cobb and Rita Trehan.

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The Future of Leadership Development

Great Leadership By Dan

A colleague from another business school recommended the book, The Future of Leadership Development, Corporate Needs and the Role of Business Schools , edited by IESE Business School Dean Jordi Canals. She said it helped set the direction for her executive development program and really got her thinking about our profession.

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July 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Although mid-summer is a time when many of us slow down (as we should), this compilation of excellent cutting-edge leadership thinking will help motivate you to hit the ground running when your vacation or other summer relaxation period ends.

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A Fisherman’s Guide to Deep Leadership Waters

Skip Prichard

Leadership in the storm Imagine you’re on a boat. Oleg Konovalov’s vision of leadership doesn’t come from textbooks. Oleg’s journey from the deck of a fishing trawler to the forefront of leadership is a tale of transformation. Leadership, Oleg argues, is similar. It’s decision time.