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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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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. Google, for example, uses human capital analytics to encourage a coaching style among managers – because the analysis reveals this to be the most effective leadership style. They are transforming each and every business model.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015. Best Leadership Books of 2014.

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Key Leadership Strategies to Identify, Manage, and Prevent Office Idiocy

Strategy Driven

Office Idiots are those individuals whose actions, inaction, antics, and ridiculous behaviors generate widespread dissatisfaction and undercut the performance and productivity of fellow employees near and far and at any job level. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Recommended Resources – AMA Business Boot Camp

Strategy Driven

This book contains essential insights for newly promoted and aspiring managers to: Define their role as a manager; creating a healthy and productive workplace environment. Develop a personal leadership style; building power and influence and motivating ‘difficult’ people while avoiding the pitfalls of office politics.

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Recommended Resources – AMA Business Boot Camp

Strategy Driven

This book contains essential insights for newly promoted and aspiring managers to: Define their role as a manager; creating a healthy and productive workplace environment. Develop a personal leadership style; building power and influence and motivating ‘difficult’ people while avoiding the pitfalls of office politics.

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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. Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule. Whole Foods, on the other hand, has a much looser culture.

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