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Executive Level Book Synopsis Presentations – Maybe just what your Leadership Team(s) could use

First Friday Book Synopsis

How can this be—all this failure—after the thousands of leadership books, talks, blogs, classes, and leadership-development programs seeking to make leaders more effective? How can this be, after more than a century of research seeking to figure out how to select better leaders? 


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The Executive Checklist: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change James M. Spitzer Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Harvard School of Public Health James M. Kerr Jørgen Vig Knudstorp and his leadership team Jeanne W. Bob''s blog entries Atul Gwande David Robertson Dean R.

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First, the Plan – then the Execution

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” Colonel Jon “Hannibal” Smith, The A-Team ——— Here’s Chapter Eight of Toy Box Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child by Ron Hunter Jr. & Alex, on Nikita “I love it when a plan comes together.” & Michael E. [.].

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From Acuity Systems – A Women’s Executive Roundtable in Dallas on October 15 – Check it Out!

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So… if you are a woman in a leadership position, near… Read More From Acuity Systems – A Women’s Executive Roundtable in Dallas on October 15 – Check it Out! And, when there is real opportunity to interact, with people who face similar challenges and have similar aims, the step forward can be significant.

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Who Do You Need To Get Rid Of? – The Hard Work Of Executive Team Leadership

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Like many such good consultants, he meets with the executive team, in a series of sessions, helping them come [.]. I recently had lunch with a top-notch business consultant – you know, the kind who has the ability to listen well, diagnose really well, and then prescribe the next steps for the company to go forward.

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Where are the Black Women Executives?

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The Glass Hammer is an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from an article about Ancella Livers written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer’s “Industry Leaders” series.

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Is your company’s executive education program any good?

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In fact, does your company even have an executive education program? What specifically is your company doing to help its executives develop and [.]. Long ago in response to parents’ protests about a recent tuition increase at Harvard, then president Derek Bok suggested, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”