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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

She explores each of these questions in depth, as well as the six key qualities of leader humility: a balanced ego, integrity, a compelling vision, ethical strategies, generous inclusion, and a developmental focus. No Rules Rules : Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer.

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Recommended Business Book: “It’s My Company Too!”

The Empowered Buisness

Building an ethical organization. Developing freedom and responsibility within a culture of discipline. Along the way, they show you how to develop motivated, involved, and entangled employees who embody an organization’s core values, vision, and mission–and succeed beyond imagination.” Benedetto, Molly Meyer.

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Urban Meyer, Ohio State Football, and How Leaders Ignore Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business Review

Urban Meyer, the highly-decorated head football coach of Ohio State University was recently suspended without pay for three games for how he handled domestic violence allegations against his long-time assistant coach, Zach Smith. It stated that Smith’s grandfather, Earle Bruce, was a long-time mentor of Meyer.

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8 Traits of Ineffective Leaders | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

When we view our responsibilities three-dimensionally as if through a prism that simultaneously allows us to keep focused on the MRC concepts, we will make better mission-focused decisions that are based upon how our resources must be deployed to accomplish them, and we will operate in ethical ways that resonate with our partners and employees.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia. University Leadership Development Professionals.

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What It’s Really Like to be a Female CEO

Harvard Business Review

If you don''t develop mechanisms with your secretaries, with the extended office, with everybody around you, it cannot work,” Nooyi says, because the corporation’s demands on the boss are overwhelming. The revulsion is there too, though: Author Philipp Meyer describes his first unpublished novel as “600 pages of incoherent nonsense.”

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Jon Stewart, Superboss

Harvard Business Review

Although their personalities varied, these bosses all demonstrated an unusual, even legendary ability to develop the best talent in their industries. My research turned up two clear superbosses in the field of comedy. The first: Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels. What was Stewart’s secret? And the affection went both ways.

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