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Leadership and learning

Lead on Purpose

Eric Hoffer Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. You read books, magazines and other resources that provide relevant information. Great leaders are learners. They read voraciously. They write and teach what they learn. Learning is as much a part of their life as eating. You have to be a learner.

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Credit comes later

Lead on Purpose

Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. The best way to start to learn about product management is to read books, magazines and blogs. CEOs are praised for their vision. Top salespeople are rewarded with high commissions. The rewards for applied skill and hard work come quickly after the work is complete.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris: Week of 11/12/12

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition Dennis N. Perkins with Margaret P. Holtman, Paul R. Kessler, and Catherine McCarthy The Yale Book of Quotations Fred R. Shapiro, [.].

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A New CEO's Reinvention Road Map

Harvard Business Review

I'm not one to manage by magazine but, if I were, "The Reinvention Roller Coaster: Risking the Present for a Powerful Future" would be required reading. We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. HBR Lives Where Taylorism Died.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.