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FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Lafley and Roger Martin Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence: Selected Writings Daniel Goleman Conscious [.].

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JANUARY 4, 2014

I presented my synopsis of Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman, and my colleague Karl Krayer presented his synopsis of Remote: Office Not Required by the 37Signals guys, Fried and Hansson. (I We had a terrific first session of the year on Friday at the January First Friday Book Synopsis. I will post […].

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

We saw, over and over again, that leadership doesn’t depend on mystical qualities or inborn gifts but rather on the capacity of individuals to know themselves, their strengths, and their weaknesses, and to learn from the feedback they get in their daily lives – in short, their capacity for self-improvement.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

June 1996), Daniel Goleman observes: “I have found that that the most effective leaders are alike in one crucial way: They all have a high degree of what has come to be known as emotional intelligence. In an article written for Harvard Business Review (“What Makes a Leader?” It’s not that IQ and technical skills [.].

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FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence ——————– So, this may be the question: if you are Brian Williams, making millions a year, anchoring […]. Self-awareness seems to diminish with promotions up the organization’s ladder.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

I have just learned about a new series of DVD programs, produced by More Than Sound, and hosted by Daniel Goleman. The video collection also includes a bonus interview with Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Sustainability at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

He spent over two decades on the front lines of business development at the top of advertising giants McCann-WorldGroup, the Interpublic Group and Lowe Worldwide and is recognized as […].

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OCTOBER 6, 2013

Shawn Hunter Jon Fortt Jonathan Klein Ken Perlman LinkedIn Liz Wiseman Martha Heller McKinsey & Company McKinsey Quarterly multipliers Out Think Promote Yourself Richard Wiseman Stephen Bear The CIO Paradox The Fall of the Alphas The Luck Factor The Multiplier Effect The New York Times The Wisdom of Titans Tsun-yan Hsieh William Ferguson'

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OCTOBER 12, 2013

Tom Davenport (collective judgment) Lao Tzu Peter Senge (organizational learning) Robert Greenleaf (servant leadership) St.

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AUGUST 4, 2013

Malcom Gladwell Maria Popova Maznagement Tip of the Day NPR NUMBERSENSE Rajat Paharia Robert A.

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DECEMBER 14, 2013

I would like to invite you to attend the January 3, 2014 First Friday Book Synopsis. There is nothing quite like the beginning of a year. We have this sense of new beginnings. We think: I’m going to make the most of this year. You almost “bury” the mistakes of the year gone by, build […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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JANUARY 27, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism Robert [.].

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JANUARY 13, 2013

BOOK REVIEWS Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing Dave Kerpen Taking Flight!

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MARCH 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: REVIEWS Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg Finding Keepers: The Monster Guide to Hiring and Holding the World’s Best Employees Steve Pogorzelski and Jesse Harriott [.].

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK/CD REVIEWS Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance Jason Selk The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield Leadership: [.].

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JULY 20, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Every leader faces a share of irritating screw-ups and minor setbacks. In response to those annoyances, some leaders get irritable and stressed out. Others keep on moving. [.].

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.].

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JULY 30, 2011

50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do; Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2006) An excellent guide to sources that can help us to “make a real difference” in our lives Note: This is one of volumes in the 5o Classics series, each available [.].

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JUNE 2, 2011

Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Thomas J. DeLong Harvard Business Review Press (2011) A new model for anxiety management by “high-need-for-achievement professionals” In the Preface, Thomas J.

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APRIL 23, 2011

Here is another outstanding article from “True Tales of Fortune” series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. James O’Toole is the author of the article.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right Mary C. Gentile Yale University Press; First Edition (August 24, 2010) How to express your values more eloquently and act upon them more effectively As I began to read this brilliant book, I was reminded of James O’Toole’s contribution to a [.].

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JUNE 2, 2012

Empathetic Marketing: How to Satisfy the 6 Core Emotional Needs of Your Customers Mark Ingwer Palgrave Macmillan (2012) How and why emotions and resulting behaviors are the foundation for satisfying complex psychological needs I was curious to know when someone would combine insights from several quite different concepts and write a book such as this (..)

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Beeson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Many companies extol the value of work-life balance for their [.].

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APRIL 12, 2011

Bacon is a Scholar in Residence in the Korn/Ferry Institute. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Lore International Institute. He has a B.S. in engineering from West Point and a PhD in literary studies from The American University.

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MARCH 5, 2011

HBR’s 10 Must Reads: On Managing People Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Why and how to manage yourself so that you can then manage others effectively This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1980 [.].

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MAY 23, 2011

The Essential Bennis Warren Bennis with Patricia Ward Biederman Jossey-Bass (2009) The pre-eminent leader of leadership studies I have read and reviewed all of Warren Bennis’ books and read most of his articles.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Collaborating Effectively Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why to establish and then nourish mutually high-impact partnerships within and beyond your organization This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in HBR.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Wisdom from Yoda (quoted by Daniel Goleman, in Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence) ——————– As I began this now 15+ year journey of serious attention to business books, I would have told you for quite some time that work ethic may trump almost anything and everything else. But the […].

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MAY 3, 2011

Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have Justin Menkes HarperBusiness (2005) A rigorous and eloquent examination of “the single biggest driver of executive performance&# There are significant differences between information and knowledge.

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