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The Best Leadership Books of 2022

Leading Blog

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not.

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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

Think how Uber transformed the transportation industry, how Airbnb took over the lodging industry — not to mention how Tesla is upending both the automobile and energy industries. To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. How it’s always been done” was never our standard.

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Conserving Emotional Energy: Quickly move on without engaging in emotionally taxing conversations. This ‘camouflage’ approach ensures that change agents operate seamlessly within the organization, making their efforts more effective and less susceptible to dismissal. link] Williams, P. Organizational Dynamics , 35 (2), 150–160.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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Microsoft Taxes Itself

Harvard Business Review

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. The money collected will go to purchase Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets , allowing Microsoft to declare itself carbon neutral. Accountability throughout the organization.

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How to Break Through a Career Impasse

Harvard Business Review

Many of the successful managers and professionals who come back to business school at mid-career are looking for more than honing their leadership skills. Most of the “Harrises” I meet have great and large operational networks consisting of mostly internal contacts. Many are stuck in their careers. What broke the impasse?

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done.

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