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The Best Leadership Books of 2015

Leading Blog

Return on Character : The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win by Fred Kiel In Return on Character , Fred Kiel has put numbers to the notion that good leadership aimed at promoting the common good, not just individual, winner-take-all acquisition can be good business. H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Research Reveals The Importance Of A Local Supply Of Managers

The Horizons Tracker

In fact, their research underscores that policies aimed at bolstering economic growth at the local level have the potential to enhance the pool of leadership skills available to firms, ultimately benefiting their bottom line. They then pair this with data from the balance sheets of those companies.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Think

Marshall Goldsmith

If not, try this visual on for comparison. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. Marshall’s exciting new research on engagement will be published in his upcoming book Triggers (Crown, 2015).' 2) conclude that it isn’t, and 3) say, “Thank you.”

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Your Favorite HBR Articles of 2015

Harvard Business Review

Here are the 20 articles you and your fellow HBR readers spent the most time reading in 2015. You believe the right kind of leadership can make things better (the two leaders who made it onto this list — Novo Nordisk’s Lars Sørensen, our best-performing CEO of the year, and Pope Francis — are both proving that).

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Get Better Results by Looking at Your Team Differently

Strategy Driven

We call that second piece 'leadership capital.' The result of those comparisons is the Leadership Matrix (or 'the box' for short). Those are the outcomes to assess when placing team members on the Leadership Matrix. He’s the managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development training firm.

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Study Finds That Fixed-Duration Strikes Are Most Effective

The Horizons Tracker

The article highlights the rise of a more militant form of leadership within the California Nurses Association in the mid-1990s, during which time strikes became more strategically deployed. The author examined 10 strikes of fixed duration by the Association between 2011 and 2015, with the majority of the strikes scheduled for a single day.

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A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

We know a lot about how teams collaborate face-to-face, with regard to leadership, communication, conflict resolution, and other areas. Whether working on cancer cures or the latest consumer-tech products, how teams collaborate affects their performance and success. But less is known about how groups work together virtually.

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