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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Effective listening skills, make it possible to select leadership and those responsible for success. The In Search of Excellence author, Tom Peters utilizes the term “management by walking around”. I often tell upper management that they have earned their stripes and that I view them as “the Elder council”. This is leadership!

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. For this to happen companies need to invest in closing the Strategy Execution Skills Gap.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas. Academics may not have helped us.

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Recommendations For Your Business Books Summer Reading List

Eric Jacobson

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. This Memorial Day, as you select the books you plan to read for pleasure this summer, how about adding to the list at least one business book. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Best Leadership Books To Read In 2015

Eric Jacobson

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. As you think about what business books you want to read next year, how about adding to the list at least one book from the list below. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?" Top Books About Leadership.

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Book Reviews and My Recommended Reading List

The Practical Leader

One example was an e-mail from a manager at the American Society of Training and Development: “We are building our reference list for the ASTD Forum Lab in India in October. I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein. The theme is Executive global leadership. .”

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