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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Leaders Eat Last : Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don''t by Simon Sinek The title of the book— Leaders Eat Last —comes from a conversation with a Marine Corps general. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Kotter wrote the book XLR8, which takes this concept on leading and describes a dual system organization meant to keep traditional hierarchy in place but facilitates direct and timely moves via a second organization that does not follow the former. After absorbing a new operation, I visited the factory floor. This is leadership!

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3 Ways Leaders Can Help Bring Great Ideas To Life

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. One approach that works well in fostering innovation and encouraging risk-taking at all levels is the creation of employee networks that operate within your existing operating hierarchy.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. A homogenous team can get moving quickly but huge benefits are frequently sacrificed as a consequence. However, there is a significant cost associated with the impact these teams can provide – time.

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The Biggest Challenges into Exciting Opportunities

Coaching Tip

Basing the way you operate in the past, which is what best practices tell you to do, doesn’t equip you to navigate change. How ideas can come from anyone on the team no matter what their hierarchy level, and how this can be encouraged. Source : John Kotter: That's Not How We Do It Here!:

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. By Jim Collins.

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20 Leadership Books You Might Not Have Read

N2Growth Blog

This book combines several of his best pieces in one volume, and is a must read for anyone looking to understand organizational, operational, or cultural management theory. Lone Survivor - This book chronicles the story of Operation Redwing as told by SEAL team leader Marcus Luttrell – the lone survivor of the operation.

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