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5 Must-read Leadership Books for Women Leaders

HR Digest

Leadership qualities are not gender-based but rather on your personality traits, strengths, and superior intellect. She recommends that women learn how to balance their inherently female qualities with what are perceived as traditional male advantages. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the bestseller list with this book in 2013.

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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen. The Incredibles, Bird and Walker’s first project at Pixar, was a homerun. Catmull and John Lasseter, Pixar’s CEO, were appointed to lead the unit as president and CEO, respectively.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. High-quality people can make your life miserable when they get into key jobs. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. They show us how not behave.

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4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions

Strategy Driven

Two bond issues had failed with warring camps arguing about educational quality and fiscal responsibility. He earned his BA magna cum laude from Harvard and his MBA and JD from Stanford and previously led projects for McKinsey & Company. Here’s an illustration. A community desperately needed a new grammar school.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Ultimately, Edison’s commercial victories over Tesla were due not to the superior quality of Edison’s ideas but to differences in the men’s innovation capital. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities?

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images. Medicine involves leadership.

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The June 3rd, 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Looking at new research on what global citizens have to say about the qualities we want in our leaders, it''s at 180 degrees in orientation from what our summer blockbuster movies tell us about what makes a good leader.”. You''ve heard of "speed dating"?