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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

It inspires and motivates. 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. 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. Focusing human capital. Using processes to guide performance.

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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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What It’s Really Like to be a Female CEO

Harvard Business Review

The revulsion is there too, though: Author Philipp Meyer describes his first unpublished novel as “600 pages of incoherent nonsense.” She discovers that, by and large, worsts are viewed with more affection than revulsion, because they mark the path from apprentice to real practitioner. They’re the scars we’re proud to have earned.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Terry Jackson – Consults with major companies such as Southern Corp, ExxonMobil, Bristol Meyers Squibb, New York Life. Provides groundbreaking university-wide coaching. Led Leadership Department at West Point.

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Jon Stewart, Superboss

Harvard Business Review

His protégés—Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Fallon, to name a few—comprise a Who’s Who of comedy superstars. They are geniuses at motivation, inspiring people to do more than they ever thought possible.

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What It’s Really Like to be a Female CEO

Harvard Business Review

The revulsion is there too, though: Author Philipp Meyer describes his first unpublished novel as “600 pages of incoherent nonsense.” She discovers that, by and large, worsts are viewed with more affection than revulsion, because they mark the path from apprentice to real practitioner. They’re the scars we’re proud to have earned.

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