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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

Leading Blog

In this book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. By closely monitoring these controls, we can maintain a healthy Risk Immune System that allows us to effectively anticipate, identify, analyze, and act upon the ever-present possibility that things will not go as planned.

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2012 Best Books on Leadership, Innovation and Strategy

LDRLB

Innovation. Leapfrogging by Soren Kaplan. Leapfrogging is a powerful book in how surprise powers innovative breakthroughs. It’s not enough just to think about the innovations your own organization is pursuing. We’re biased. Soren is a LDRLB contributor but that shouldn’t disqualify him from making our list.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Align Systems ). Innovate Purposefully ). Discipline III.

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Kaplan and Dr. David P. Breakdowns in a company’s management system, not managers’ lack of ability or effort, are what cause a company’s underperformance. By creating a closed-loop management system, companies can avoid such shortfalls. Align Systems ). Innovate Purposefully ). Discipline III.

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Why Leaders Need To Show Humility

Tanveer Naseer

These disasters have affected popular attitudes toward our entire system of free market capitalism. The trust of many in a system that has been the most spectacular generator of innovation in history was damaged by the unbridled greed of a few. It’s impossible to build a high-trust organization around a caste system.

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The Disconnect Between Strategy And Execution

Six Disciplines

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy. Of course, it doesn't have to be that way.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. There are many lessons and takeaways to be found inside.

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