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Leadership Development "Moneyball"

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was originally published in SmartBrief on Leadership 7/25/2013: “Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to get the most production out of his team by spending the least amount of money. Source: Fast Company. Source: Great Leadership.

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Best Leadership Books of 2013

Leading Blog

The list below represents my picks for the best leadership books of 2013. * * *. These principles should be a part of your personal leadership development plan. Best Leadership Books of 2011. You will be remembered through the growth of the people you leveraged your leadership power for. Are the people around you flourishing?

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Management Improvement Carnival – 2013 Edition

QAspire

In 2013, one of the highlights of her work was “ Value of Vision ” series. Here are 3 posts and snippets that I enjoyed reading so far, and you will too: Executives can’t do it alone, and must be masters of developing people. Problem solving is an opportunity to solve a problem, and develop people.

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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Lead Change Blog

In the years since The Secret originally appeared on bookstore shelves, over 500 thousand copies have been sold to leaders and learners around the world, and several additional books have been published in this leadership series, including The Secret of Teams (2011), Great Leaders GROW (2012), and The Heart of Leadership (2013).

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

And, to help them develop their people as well, because you see, without their colleagues, their people and teams, these leaders, as successful as they might be, would have no one to lead. Developing as a leader is a difficult endeavor. (If This simple model for leadership development works! It’s a tricky situation.

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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. Rise of the Chinese thinkers The big story in the 2013 Thinkers50 was the arrival of the first Chinese thinkers in the ranking. Ideas make a difference.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. An assessment should be done of the high potential employees to determine their current strengths and development needs. We’ll look at how they determined what competencies were needed for future leaders and what comprised the program that was developed.