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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

Coaching Tip

Booksellers, like any other business, must have Strategic Leadership to Prosper. Many in management mistakenly assume that leadership style is always a function of personality rather than strategic choice. Their leadership style is based upon their innate signature talents and this represents their default leadership behavior.

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LEARN to be that Somebody

General Leadership

Today, almost 500 hundred years later, this innovative, people-centric organization known as the Jesuits is flourishing. When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was selected as the 266th pope of the Catholic Church in early 2013 he immediately showed the world his leadership style would be different than those before him.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015. Blog Post ).

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

Managers are no exception, especially when incentives favor finding causal relationships between variables that are difficult to measure, such as changes in leadership style and team performance. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Principle 7 — Generate High-Velocity Decisions) in the section titled Invention Machine he explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 decisions and why understanding the difference is crucial to business growth through invention and innovation.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. Amazon’s culture is a tight one, characterized by structure and precision.

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