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The Best Leadership Books of 2022

Leading Blog

Rumelt (PublicAffairs, 2022) What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies. A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

He was clearly operating on the assumption that if they knew better, they’d do better. Building transformation into the company’s operating rhythm. Explicitly managing organizational energy. They had to get costs down. He said they all needed to work harder and smarter. Service and quality levels had to rise.

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Executive Coaching Company Breakdown: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching for Strategic Change

N2Growth Blog

That’s because top-tier executive leaders devote time to imparting principles, techniques, ideas, values, and emotional energy to others, sharing their wisdom and expertise with younger employees in order to create a stronger and more dynamic business. Executives today are saddled with a business landscape unlike anything in the past.

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Behind the Berkshire Hathaway Curtain: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Chan John Wiley & Sons (2010) A chorus of eloquent voices that suggest “a sense of what life is, can be, or should be” Prior to reading this book, I had already read two biographies of Warren Buffett, Roger Lowenstein’s Buffett: [.].

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Peter Senge on the Creation of a Post-Industrial Theory and Practice of Education

Deming Institute

Per Carl Rogers, that which most personal is most universal”. 20 to 25 years of efforts to transform the systemic nature of business operations…. Most business corporations are basically pouring all the energy they can into sustaining, strengthening, tightening up, becoming yet more able to operate in the industrial mode….and

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

but they expend far more energy intentionally searching for opportunity, but not just any opportunity – a game changer. Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green

Harvard Business Review

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Yes, financial institutions should be environmentally responsible in their own operations. Don''t get us wrong.