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LeadershipNow 140: August 2013 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2013 that you might have missed: The Future of Work Part II: 10 Tips For Professionals by @odesk. Kevin Roberts: The biggest constraint on what students can do is what they think they can do. Bloomberg''s Peter Grauer: How the ''And Factor'' Defines Leadership - Knowledge@Wharton.

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Add Constraints to Processes Carefully

Curious Cat

Take great care in adding constraints to processes to avoid doing so needlessly. Occasionally a required field is a sensible constraint on an online form but so often they add unnecessary constraints. Occasionally a required field is a sensible constraint on an online form but so often they add unnecessary constraints.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2014 Compilation

Leading Blog

Leadership: A Career Choice or a Constraint? From @wallybock > Looking Back at 2013 and Ahead to 2014. Noonan: Our Selfish ''Public Servants''. From Kevin Roberts Inner, Outer, Other – The Focus of a Leader. Accountability : If It Is To Be, It’s Up To Me by @LollyDaskal. Leadership: Developing Better Bosses at Google by @wallybock.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

A Beautiful Constraint : How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business by Adam Morgan and Mark Barden Typically we look at a constraint as a negative. But what if a constraint was the gift that opened up previously unimagined possibilities? Not in spite of the constraint, but because of it.

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What strategy is (and what it isn’t):

Strategy Driven

His 2013 book, Strategy: A History, which took 40 years to write, is the best book ever written outlining the entire history of the development of strategy. Every conflict ever known has figured in some kind of attack or reaction. Survival depends on it. And so does ours. The plan is a thoughtful prediction.

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Leadership Lessons On Listening, Questioning, And Moving Others To Act

Tanveer Naseer

Blinded by presumptions about the value of their status and unaware of the cultural and status constraints under which subordinates may labor, leaders intent on speed and efficiency often miss essential information. See “ Daniel Pink’s New Pitch ”, by Theodore Kinni, strategy+business magazine, Autumn 2013.) and leave it at that.

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A Feminine Leadership Way of Doing Things

Coaching Tip

A passage in an Eileen Fisher brochure entitled "Simply to Be Ourselves": The underlying philosophy of our design--no constraints, freedom of expression--extends to the company itself, which is run in a loosely structured manner that allows for an open exchange of ideas. Source: The New Yorker, September 23, 2013.