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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. It can be a long, strange trip indeed – and your success depends on attracting the right talent.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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The First Secret of Success Is Showing Up

Harvard Business Review

A classic old film comedy, Being There , stars the late Peter Sellers as dimwitted Chance the Gardener, who tended the grounds for a wealthy elderly gentleman. That's why showing up is the first key to successful leadership of change (of course, there are several more, as I indicated in a recent TEDx talk ).

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How Winning Organizations Last 100 Years

Harvard Business Review

From education, Eton College, from science, NASA (initially part of the US Army), and from sport, the New Zealand All Blacks and British Cycling. And they carefully manage leadership transitions, so nothing is lost along the way. Then, we spent five years trying to understand what they do, and how they do it.

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The Big Picture of Business – Sayings, Meanings and Interpretations

Strategy Driven

Concepts which have changed names over the years… Peep show | film arcade | silent films | talkies | movies | cinema | video. Bat is sports equipment in baseball. Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra. Thereafter, tools of the trade (including technology) may be applied. Toilet paper.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. Willing to Take Chances.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. Willing to Take Chances.