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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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Orchestra Without a Conductor

Let's Grow Leaders

Related Stories Moms Growing Leaders: A Mother’s Day Tribute Can You Ignore Office Politics? May 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. Developing Leadership in Children Empowerment Execution Fear and Courage confidence empowerment leadership in youth orchestra self-leadership'

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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers. In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. A post-mortem was conducted that pointed to a lack of organizational alignment, internal politics, and a lack of technical competence that hindered its ability to transform.

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In Defense of Professional Intimacy

Let's Grow Leaders

Related Stories Peer Pressures: 5 Reasons You Frustrate Your Peers Can You Ignore Office Politics? May 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. The post In Defense of Professional Intimacy appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Mentoring Relationships friendships professional distance relationships at work'

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Hope Is What People Need from Leaders Today

Michael Lee Stallard

As to the impact of hope, Brooks noted: “In a report in The Journal of Positive Psychology in 2013, researchers defining hope as ‘having the will and finding the way’ found that high-hope employees are 28 percent more likely to be successful at work and 44 percent more likely to enjoy good health and well-being.”.

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Get Prepared for 2013?s Unpredictable Changes and Chances

The Practical Leader

president, Abraham Lincoln, has long been an inspirational beacon for my own visioning and self-development. The movie is partly based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

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What strategy is (and what it isn’t):

Strategy Driven

Sir Lawrence Freedman of Oxford University is one of the world’s preeminent international scholars on politics and war. 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. This is why strategy is the central political art.

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