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Best Leadership Books To Read In 2015

Eric Jacobson

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi and Art Kleiner stated in their 2015 Harvard Business Review article that only 8% of leaders are effective at both creating good strategies and executing them. John Kotter offers the “8 Step Process for Leading Change”. Kaplan and David P. Norton and their Palladium associates.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business Review

So, in August 2015 we secured board approval to create an innovation committee of 14 top executives and a full-time innovation strategy team of five people, to orchestrate the portfolio of specific initiatives that would create a new way of innovating throughout the company. More than 600 were selected.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business Review

billion, its budget in 2015 was slightly higher than the total gross sales of General Motors. McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change. The leadership team had to work through vestiges of VA’s rule-based past.