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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2024

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2024 curated just for you. Bad leadership is a social disease. Leadership from Bad to Worse is, then, a corrective. In our personal lives, social media has us keeping score by likes and followers. Slow productivity is exactly what we need.

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Mastering Leadership: Insights from The Vagrant

Skip Prichard

How can the parable of “The Vagrant” inform your leadership style? And I got a chance to sit down for a lively, fascinating talk with him and Dan Rockwell, creator of the very popular Leadership Freak Blog. Alongside him was Dan Rockwell, the brains behind the widely-followed Leadership Freak Blog. I love a good parable.

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How To Rearrange Your Brain for Success

Leading Blog

Fast-paced business environments swing between ups and downs, with many stressful interactions. And maybe because our kids knew the question was coming, they kept their antennas up all day with the expectation that the happiest moment could happen at any time. A healthy fear of failure has kept me sharp. How do you get there?

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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. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. Blog Post ). Stephen M.R. Blog Post ).

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Elon Musk by Walter Isaascson

Leading Blog

Even though Musk’s approach doesn’t necessarily provide a blueprint to be copied any more than Steve Jobs’ approach did (even though both individuals got results), it does offer lessons to be learned and applied in our own leadership. If you don’t end up having to restore 10 percent of the parts you deleted, then you didn’t delete enough.

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Harnessing the Power of Sleep for Effective Leadership

Skip Prichard

The truth is, sleep is an essential component of effective leadership. Enhanced Decision Making A well-rested leader is a sharp-minded leader. “Sleep isn’t just a time of rest, it’s a cornerstone of leadership success. “Sleep deprivation can jeopardize leadership success. This is false.

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5 Components of Charismatic Leadership

Skip Prichard

Reflections on Charismatic Leadership. Charismatic leaders excel in their ability to formulate and articulate an inspirational vision, and by behaviors and actions signal to followers that they—and by inference their mission—are extraordinary. Charismatic leaders make their followers part of something larger than themselves.

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