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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2020. Leading with Feeling : Nine Strategies of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership by Cary Cherniss and Cornelia W. This book describes how 25 outstanding leaders used emotional intelligence to deal with critical challenges and opportunities.

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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

The year 2020 is playing out like a bad dream in need of a wake-up call. If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. Marti Konstant .

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Full-Spectrum Thinking

Leading Blog

Johansen spends a good deal of the book applying FST to the future of business, technology, our lifestyle, and our sense of meaning. Johansen believes that true digital natives (24 or under in 2020) are very good at full-spectrum thinking. And we see that happening all around us.

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Soft Skills Are Vital If Low Skilled Workers Are To Thrive

The Horizons Tracker

The standard thinking suggests that wage inequality tends to increase as technical progress advances, as the march of technology raises the premium on skilled labor, and dulls the negotiating power of unskilled labor as technology increasingly takes the work they used to do. When the researchers assessed the U.K.

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The Dilemma of L&D: Buy or Build?

The Center For Leadership Studies

In 2020, decisions for L&D leaders were less about buy or build and more about temporary (even Band-Aid) solutions based on the critical need for training continuity. In addition to learning how to manage the technology side of the platform, the techniques for engaging learners in a virtual setting are unique to the modality.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Similar to the government’s existing ‘Help to Grow: Management’ scheme, the programme would subsidise leaders in small firms to undertake an intensive course covering everything from adopting digital technology to sourcing new potential markets.” How can we close it?

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

If there’s one constant in 2020, it’s change. Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. Empathy is a core component of emotional intelligence. Leaders spend 70 to 90 percent of their time in group or team interactions every day. Collaboration. What makes the difference?