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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2015

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September. Leadership BS : Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer. What You Really Need to Lead : The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner by Robert Steven Kaplan. H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. Always Hustle.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

If too much emphasis is placed on strategy compared with execution by the leadership, then it leads to lower levels of performance because they become occupied with crafting it rather than executing it. Kaplan and David P. Recently my company published our latest research on how companies execute that revealed 67% fail.

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A Biologist, Computer Scientist & Historian walk into a.

Mills Scofield

Andrew Kaplan eloquently sums this up in his post below he wrote right before graduation. Originally published in the Brown Daily Herald, May 21, 2015 and republished with permission by the author. It is through eclectic, diverse, and seemingly random relationships, interactions and friendships that we learn and then change the world.

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A Biologist, Computer Scientist & Historian walk into a.

Mills Scofield

Andrew Kaplan eloquently sums this up in his post below he wrote right before graduation. Originally published in the Brown Daily Herald, May 21, 2015 and republished with permission by the author. It is through eclectic, diverse, and seemingly random relationships, interactions and friendships that we learn and then change the world.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. A follow-up article, coauthored with Amy Edmondson and Francesca Gino, delved more deeply into such issues as psychological safety, openness to new ideas, and leadership attention. Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.