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Leadership Unchained: Defy Conventional Wisdom for Breakthrough Performance

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Sara Canaday: Leadership Unchained: Defy Conventional Wisdom for Breakthrough Performance. What if the leadership practices we've worked so hard to master are now getting in the way? In fact, what if they are actually holding us down and preventing us from leading for growth and innovation? Forget "what if." It's happening. So what's the solution? Unfortunately, it's not as simple as throwing out the old competencies and learning new ones.

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Scaling Leadership

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How do senior leaders, in their own words, describe the most effective leaders--the ones that get results, grow the business, enhance the culture, and leave in their wake a trail of other really effective leaders? After surveying more than one million leaders worldwide, co-authors Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams have drawn on their research to define leadership that works, in their upcoming book SCALING LEADERSHIP.

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Both Sides of Leadership

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One of the most difficult leadership positions in business today is also the most common: the " leader in the middle. " . If you lead people and answer to someone else--a boss, shareholder, customers--you are among the millions of "leaders in the middle.". "Leaders in the middle too often serve down to their people and defend up to their bosses, instead of serving up to their bosses and coaching down to their employees," says author Nathan Jamail, who has spent decades managing and coaching top

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The Expertise Economy

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To help people become experts--to help them gain knowledge, build skills, and become lifelong learners--it's critical that we understand how adults learn best. Today, we know more than ever about how the human brain works and how people learn most effectively. In THE EXPERTISE ECONOMY , Author Kelly Palmer argues that as the future of work changes, skills and expertise--not credentials--will be the most important asset a company and its employees need to succeed in the New Economy.

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CONSCIOUS

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We live in a world of accelerating change that we can either tune out and avoid, or evolve with, lead and transform by awakening and expanding our minds with heightened awareness. In "CONSCIOUS: The Power of Awareness in Business and Life" author and psychologist Bob Rosen, PhD and Emma-Kate Swann argue that the state of mind most needed today is not mindfulness,which recharges us, but an awareness that can empower us to adapt to and even lead change.

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Conquer the Chaos at Work

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Let's be real and honest about the work day--the feeling of seeing an email inbox that is always filled with new messages on top of older, unread messages. Now add the work day surprises--resignations, emergencies (real and fake), new minefields of changes to deadlines, and a general sense of uneasiness. In MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR WORKDAY , author Mary Camuto challenges you to actively manage and make the most of your work day possibilities and problems.

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The Human Lifespan

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Average life expectancy around the world has climbed steadily over the past 100 years. But longevity seems to have topped out at about 120 years. To some researchers, this suggests there's a natural limit to how long humans can live--and we've pretty much reached it. Others say, in effect, that past performance doesn't guarantee future results. New and emerging medical technologies, they say, might be able to slow aging to such an extent that not only will we live much longer, but we'll stay b

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