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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. All organizations must face major transformations while working to advance in their industry. Therefore, it’s critical to hire an experienced CTO.

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The Optimal Margin of Illusion

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robert Bruce Shaw : Research into the psychology of leadership highlights the benefit of being more confident than you should be. The above approaches will help you identify and manage the blindspots that all of us have. awareness blind spots coaching development feedback Robert Bruce Shaw' Robert holds a Ph.D.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobson

In a highly personal and reflective manner, Mulligan, with Greg Shaw , details through stories, examples, insights and frameworks, how business leaders can prepare for and respond to technological disruption. Think of the restaurant industry or the airline industry.

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When the Distancing Ends, How Far Away Will You Be?

Decker Communication

The playwright George Bernard Shaw once observed that “to be in hell is to drift, and to be in heaven is to steer.” The months ahead will be a high-pressure exercise in change management, and success will depend on an organization’s flexibility and capacity to adjust its trajectory. In the two months since the U.S.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobson

In a highly personal and reflective manner, Mulligan, with Greg Shaw , details through stories, examples, insights and frameworks, how business leaders can prepare for and respond to technological disruption. Think of the restaurant industry or the airline industry.

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Using the Billboard Effect to Develop and Obtain Employee Buy In on the Leader’s Vision

Great Leadership By Dan

This is no better expressed than Robert Kennedy quoting George Bernard Shaw: " Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' How are employees (or managers for that matter) going to know how successful their efforts are without measureable feedback? Small ideas are okay, but they're not transformative.