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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

Leading Blog

Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. Risk : A User's Guide by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico. In this book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. Boss Brain : Unlock Your Entrepreneurial Instincts by Tra Williams.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Many of the books listed below help us to do just that. When we get it right on the inside, we can do right on the outside. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large. It leads to short-term thinking. That’s not the way to lead.

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Best Leadership Books of 2011

Leading Blog

In all of this information there is the sense too, that perhaps we have lost the wisdom we need and that maybe some new thing will help us to avoid what we already know and don’t want to do. These books speak to our need to rethink our core thinking, beliefs and motivations—to do the uncomfortable. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

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Don't Wait for Change

Harvard Business Review

There are plenty of good reasons for inaction: It's not my responsibility, I have lots of other things to do, someone might get angry at me for stepping on their turf. Yet most industry leaders were either in denial or didn't know what to do. As he says, "It's the right thing to do.". Join forces with other colleagues.